French President Emmanuel Macron met his Indonesian counterpart on Wednesday, seeking to deepen trade and defense relations with the largest economy of Southeast Asia in the second phase of a three-country tour, which promotes France as a balance power between the US and China.Macron met Prabovo Sabiento at the President’s President of the capital Jakarta, which is a guard of honor, gun salute and thousands of young Indonesian people waving French flags, waving French flags.“Our partnership over all regions, defense and safety, economy, culture is already strong, but we are strengthening it,” Macron told Prabovo.“I think this is the best way … Handle business in challenging times. So thank you very much for your support, our friendship and France for your very special attachment. ,Prabovo replied: “Mercy Buchp, Mahasya!”The French President will later meet investors and students and participate in a state dinner. On Thursday, he will visit Yogyakarta on Java Island in Indonesia to visit the world’s largest Buddhist temple before going to Singapore to end his six -day visit. The Presidency said in a statement that the Indonesian Defense Minister sentencedfari sezmosdin said after welcoming Macron that the country will sign a letter of intentions on defense equipment and “strengthen his strategic partnership in the defense sector”.In front of Donald Trump’s tariff and the United States’s economic conflict with China, Macron is trying to change its “third manner” status in contracts for French companies, especially in defense, energy and important minerals.He has indicated that he will try to bring the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country on the board as he pushes a two-state solution for the decades-Lumba Israel-Pilstinian conflict at a United Nations Conference in June.“Naturally, the question of recognizing Israel is an issue,” one of Macron’s advisors told reporters before the visit. The advisor said, “We fully understand the sensitivity of Muslim communities in the region” that the advisor said about the situation of Gaza.Macron wants to show that he is “particularly committed” to “achieve peace in the Middle East”, demonstrating no dual standards on this issue in light of his efforts to resolve the Ukraine war.
Power for peace:
In Vietnam on Tuesday, Macron presented France as “power of peace and balance”, committed to an international system “based on law”.This Beijing was seen as a message to both, which has become increasingly vocal in its regional claims in the South China Sea, and for Washington on the dangers of broad tariffs of Trump. Macron warned that “to create continuous uncertainty” with the business policy was “to put back the investment and the economy”.His comment came as the Union of the Southeast Asian nations (ASEAN) – of which Indonesia is a member – at the block’s summit in Malaysia said that it would speed up efforts to diversify the trade network in front of Trump’s tariff.Hence Macron’s office is looking for an economic victory in the South East Asian archipelago of about 280 million people.French mining veteran Emate, the new chief executive of the Paulo Castlarry, was part of a French delegation trying to achieve Jakarta to increase production in the world’s largest nickel mine in Eastern Indonesia.Paris also intends to cooperate on arms with Prabovo of a former Defense Minister and General Indonesia.While Jakarta has earlier sourced fighter jets from Russia, in recent years it has acquired Rafaels from French company Dassault Aviation, whose lead Eric Trappier will join the French delegation.
