Jakarta, June 5 -- Indonesian Coordinating Economic Affairs Minister Airlangga Hartarto met New Zealand's Agriculture, Forestry, Trade and Investment Minister, Todd McClay, on the sidelines of the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting in Paris to open new bilateral cooperation opportunities.

The Indonesian government is striving to increase access to tropical fruit exports, such as pineapples, which have already made successful inroads into the New Zealand market. Other Indonesian horticultural commodities, such as bananas, mangoes, and papayas, are currently in the process of gaining access.

"We hope that New Zealand will open wider market access for Indonesian tropical fruits," Hartarto noted in his statement, Wednesday (June 4).

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