(VOVWORLD) – On Tuesday morning (January 17), at the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) office in Hanoi, Tran Minh Hung, Deputy Director General of Voice of Vietnam and Chairman of the Vietnam-Indonesia Friendship Association (VIFA), received Budiarsa Sastrawinata, Chairman of the Indonesia-Vietnam Friendship Association (IVFA) who was visiting Vietnam.

At the meeting, Chairman Tran Minh Hung said that currently in addition to the Vietnam-Indonesia Friendship Association at the central level, there are also several associations at the regional level. There are 4 provinces in Vietnam that have signed the MoU and tied the bonds of brotherhood with 4 provinces in Indonesia. Tran Minh Hung, Deputy Director General of Radio Suara Vietnam, Chairman of the Vietnam-Indonesia Friendship Association emphasized:

“In 2023, we aim to further promote cooperation between regions in both countries. After the 2023 Chinese New Year, we will conduct working visits to several Vietnamese provinces that cooperate with Indonesia to establish regional branch associations and promote bilateral cooperation. It is planned that in mid-2023, we will coordinate with the Indonesian Embassy in Vietnam to hold a workshop to strengthen economic, cultural, and tourism cooperation between the two countries.”

On his part, IVFA Chairman Budiarsa Sastrawinata wants the two countries to encourage economic cooperation; asking the two parties to strengthen cooperation in the fields of culture, sports, and tourism.

The two parties agreed to coordinate to realize the target agreed by the leaders of the two countries, namely to immediately bring the bilateral trade value to 15 billion USD and higher by 2028.

Source: https://vovworld.vn/id-ID/berita/asosiasi-persahabatan-vietnamindonesia-dan-asosiasi-persahabatan-indonesiavietnam-memperkuat-kerja-sama-1169154.vov