{"id":69706,"date":"2016-04-19T16:19:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T16:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=2da77e2f02d669450bfb5dae51dfc7db"},"modified":"2016-04-19T16:19:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T16:19:17","slug":"press-release-pm-meeting-with-president-joko-widodo-of-indonesia-19-april-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=69706","title":{"rendered":"Press release: PM meeting with President Joko Widodo of Indonesia: 19 April 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A Downing Street spokesperson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Prime Minister met the Indonesian President Joko Widodo today at Downing Street.<\/p>\n<p>They discussed a broad range of issues, including co-operation on security and counter-extremism. The Prime Minister offered his condolences over the loss of life in the attacks in Jakarta earlier this year, and committed to continued counter-terrorism and counter-extremism support, including co-operation and advice from our police and security agencies. The Prime Minister and President agreed that as the world\u2019s most populous Muslim-majority state, Indonesia had a vital role to play in countering extremism globally as the voice of moderate, peaceful Islam.<\/p>\n<p>They also shared thoughts on addressing other global issues, including anti-corruption and transparency where they agreed on importance of addressing these issues to ensure economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>They discussed how to strengthen the bilateral trade relationship, including through today\u2019s agreement for Indonesia\u2019s national airline to upgrade its aircraft to a new Airbus model with Rolls-Royce engines, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/aerospace-deal-worth-nearly-1-billion-to-uk-signed-during-indonesian-president-visit\">deal worth nearly \u00a31 billion to the UK economy<\/a>. And they considered new commercial opportunities, such as in infrastructure, particularly around the 2018 Asian Games, and the creative industries.<\/p>\n<p>They discussed the positive progress on an ambitious EU-Indonesia free trade agreement, agreeing this held huge potential for both our countries, making it easier and cheaper for businesses to invest and trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">They also discussed the importance of respect for human rights, with the Prime Minister reiterating our longstanding and long-stated opposition to the use of the death penalty.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister David Cameron met the Indonesian President Joko Widodo today and discussed security, trade and other global issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}