Jakarta, June 13 -- Indonesian business actors inked memorandums of understanding (MoUs) worth US$200.8 million with their Japanese counterparts during the Indonesia-Japan Business Forum in Osaka, Japan, earlier this week.

Deputy Minister of Trade Dyah Roro Esti said that her ministry was committed to supporting the stakeholders, including small and medium enterprises (SMEs), at the forum, which was among the series of activities joined by the Indonesian trade mission to Japan.

"Collaboration between the two countries as trading partners is expected to be stronger and mutually beneficial," she said in a statement issued on Friday.

A total of 13 collaborations, including in paper products, wood pellets, seafood, chocolate, rattan decora...