The two countries` plan was formalized in a Letter of Intent signed here by Waryono Karyo, secretary general of Indonesia`s energy and mineral resources ministry, and Maciej Kaliski, Poland`s deputy economic affairs minister, at a ceremony here Monday.
The ceremony was also attended by Indonesian Energy and Natural Resources Minister Darwin Saleh, Polish Ambassador to Indonesia Grzegorz Wisniewski and Indonesian Ambassador to Poland Darmansjah Djumala.
"This letter of intent is a follow up to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) the two two countries signed and the bilateral consultations and expert meetings they held in Warsaw in 2009," Darmansjah Djumala said following the document`s signing.
The cooperation would include the joint production of such high technolpgy goods as turbines, remote sensing devices, conveyor belts in Indonesia.
"We are also to cooperate in coal mining, energy, port and infrastructure building and weapon production," he said,
Ambassador Djumala said Indonesia needs to cooperate with Poland more closely, especially in the economic field because Poland was the only country in Europe enjoying positive economic growth and also possessed sophisticated coal mining technology.
"From Poland`s viewpoint , Indonesia was a potential market for tits products," he said.
Meanwhile, Indonesia was already exporting many commodities and products to Poland, such as coffee, tobacco, furniture, textiles, electronic equipment, and chemicals.
But Djumala admitted there were still problems that needed to be overcome to increase the two countries bilateral trade such as the fact that Indonesian products were still being exported to Poland via third countries, namely Germany and the Netherlands.
"So under the agreement signed today, we will find a way to export our goods to Poland directly," he said.
Indonesia-Poland trade in 2010 reached a total value of US$485, up 20 percent from the preceding year.
(T.SDP-01/HAJM/A014)
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