SINGAPORE: Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on Sunday (Oct 20) congratulated Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto on his inauguration and powerful tenure.
“The robust mandate you may have obtained from the Indonesian individuals displays their confidence in your management and imaginative and prescient of a peaceable and affluent nation,” Wong stated in a congratulatory letter to Prabowo.
Mr Wong attended Mr Prabowo’s inauguration on Sunday morning and invited the president within the afternoon earlier than attending a state reception within the night, Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated in a press release on Sunday.
“As a pal and neighbor, Singapore stands able to cooperate with Indonesia, each bilaterally and regionally,” the assertion stated.
In his congratulatory letter, Wong additionally stated: “A assured and thriving Indonesia constitutes a cohesive and vibrant ASEAN and opens up many alternatives for nearer cooperation between our international locations.”
He added that he appears to be like ahead to increasing the collaboration between Singapore and Indonesia.
“We are ranging from a stable base,” he stated, underlining that each international locations take pleasure in a detailed financial partnership, with vital commerce, funding and tourism flows.
“With your help, protection relations have deepened with the entry into pressure of the Defense Cooperation Agreement, which can foster better collaboration and capability constructing between our militaries,” Wong added.
There is critical potential for Singapore and Indonesia to work collectively in lots of different areas and search mutually useful outcomes, Wong stated.
“In latest years, we now have began to handle renewable power and sustainability, meals safety, human capital improvement and healthcare, and I hope we are able to take our cooperation to the subsequent degree,” Wong added.
“The challenges and alternatives of the longer term would require nearer collaboration and coordination on the worldwide degree.
“Singapore and Indonesia even have a typical curiosity in safeguarding regional peace and prosperity and selling a rules-based order,” Wong stated.
Wong stated Indonesia will proceed to play a key position as a pacesetter and trusted accomplice for constructive dialogue and mutually useful cooperation in an more and more fragmented world.
“I want you good well being and each success as you assume the best workplace within the land, and I sit up for beginning to work collectively on our shared agenda,” Wong stated.
