Jakarta (ANTARA) - Governor Anies Baswedan received Ambassador of South Korea to Indonesia Park Tae-sung at the Jakarta City Hall to discuss multisectoral cooperation opportunities in Jakarta.
According to the governor, several sectors available for investment and cooperation with South Korea are public transportation, electric vehicles, provision of the drinking water system and water treatment system as well as organic waste management system to manage waste in Jakarta's traditional markets.
"We are optimistic of being able to present developments in Jakarta for sectors that are open for cooperation opportunities with South Korea," Baswedan noted at the Jakarta City Hall on Friday.
Jakarta has a long-term plan to improve public transportation, public dwellings, water management system, and transition to electric vehicles for which South Korean companies and institutions could participate in the process, he noted.
A South Korean institution has completed its study on the Jakarta MRT and LRT, with the study report to be published soon, Baswedan remarked while adding that the Jakarta authority had also begun phasing in electric buses for TransJakarta.
The governor stated that another sector available for cooperation with South Korea is the development of a waste management system in traditional markets that is expected to become an exemplary feature of Jakarta in the future.
Cooperation with South Korea, apart from boosting infrastructure development in Jakarta, is also expected to become a medium for the transfer of knowledge and experience to Indonesian experts involved in the projects, he remarked.
"We are optimistic that the transfer of knowledge and experience is occurring in the development process to allow our teams in Indonesia to follow the track given by South Korea in the long-term process," Baswedan affirmed.
Apart from discussing cooperation opportunities, the governor also expressed gratitude for the assistance provided by the late former Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon to Jakarta at the start of the pandemic by sending COVID-19 test equipment.
"At the onset of the pandemic, we received assistance from Mayor Park by sending COVID-19 test equipment from Seoul. We laud his assistance and are glad that we can discuss our cooperation in the future," he remarked.
Meanwhile, Ambassador Park also expressed gratitude for the Jakarta authority's assistance in facilitating COVID-19 vaccination for South Korean nationals mostly living in the Greater Jakarta area.
"Some 70 percent of South Korean nationals in Indonesia live in the Greater Jakarta area. We express our gratitude for the Jakarta authority's assistance to provide vaccines for our citizens," Park remarked.
