Among those present during the meeting were Vice President Jusuf M. Kalla, Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro, Deputy Governor of West Java Deddy Miswar, Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, and Bandung Mayor Ridwan Kamil.
The Asia-Africa Conference was organized in Bandung, West Java, in April 1955.
The Bandung Conference, a meeting of Asian and African states, was organized by Indonesia, Myanmar (Burma), Ceylon (Sri Lanka), India, and Pakistan
In all, 29 countries representing more than half the worlds population sent their delegates to attend the conference.
The conference was followed by the Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Conference in Cairo in September 1957 and the Belgrade Conference in 1961, which led to the establishment of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).
In 2005, on the 50th anniversary of the original conference, leaders from Asian and African countries met in Jakarta and Bandung to launch the New Asian-African Strategic Partnership (NAASP).
They pledged to promote political, economic, and cultural cooperation between the two continents.
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Editor: Ella Syafputri
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