Jakarta, Sept. 24 -- Indonesia and Sweden have agreed to cooperate in the fields of technology and human resource capacity building through partnerships between their universities and industrial sectors, according to representatives from the two nations.

"Sweden is the second most innovative country in the world. We hope we can direct the cooperation in the fields (of technology and human resource development)," director general for American and European affairs at the Indonesian Foreign Ministry, I Gede Ngurah Swajaya, said at an online seminar on Thursday, held to mark 70 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

Swajaya delivered a general lecture at a discussion during the event.

He said the partnership between the t...