Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi stated that the 2023 ASEAN Summit that will be held in Labuan Bajo, West Manggarai, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), on May 9-11, had eight meeting agendas.
"There will be several meetings because we have prepared two formats for the 42nd ASEAN Summit this year, namely the plenary format and retreat format," she noted at Waringin Peak, Labuan Bajo, NTT, Tuesday.
According to Marsudi, seven of the eight meetings would be chaired by Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi), including the meeting of ASEAN leaders with the parliament, youth, businesses, and the high-level task force.
"The high-level task force will prepare the vision of ASEAN 2045," she remarked.
Meanwhile, also scheduled were two other meetings -- the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle Sub-Regional Economic Cooperation (IMT-GT) and the Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) Cooperation -- which this year will be led by the Malaysian prime minister.
"The chair of the BIMP-EAGA meeting was chosen based on a rotational basis, and this year, it is Malaysia's turn," the minister stated.
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She stated that the series of the 2023 ASEAN Summit in Labuan Bajo will begin on May 8, 2023, with the Senior Official Meeting agenda and followed by a ministerial-level meeting on May 9, 2023.
"The peak of the summit will take place on May 10-11," she remarked.
Marsudi also accompanies President Jokowi in the final inspection of Labuan Bajo as the host of the 2023 ASEAN Summit at the Waringin Peak, Labuan Bajo, on Tuesday.
"We are counting the days, there are only two weeks left. All the preparations are on the right track. We just need some additional preparation until D-Day," she noted.
One of the locations selected for the 2023 ASEAN Summit is Waringin Peak that is scheduled to be the venue for the Spouse Program for pairs of heads of state.
"We had just checked the venue with President Jokowi and First Lady Iriana Joko Widodo. They gave several directions regarding the preparation for the Spouse Program," Marsudi remarked.
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