Jakarta, July 15 -- The Indonesian Foreign Ministry has welcomed the completion of the Indonesia-European Union Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (I-EU CEPA), describing it as a strategic achievement amid ongoing geopolitical volatility.

"As consensus reached on I-EU CEPA, it has become a momentum of strategic economic achievements for the two sides to expand market access amidst the increasingly complex geopolitical and geoeconomic dynamics," Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Rolliansyah Soemirat said in his written remarks on Monday.

He added that securing mutual commitments to seal the trade deal and strengthening the strategic partnership between Indonesia and the EU were among the deliverables of President Prabowo Subianto's...