Jakarta, May 16 -- The Ministry of Industry is encouraging greater cooperation in the industrial sector with the Chinese government to make the supply chains of the two countries more competitive.

"We also encourage stronger cooperation between business players in Indonesia and business players in China to bolster not only things related to business development but also streamlining supply chains," the ministry's secretary general, Eko Cahyanto, said.

He made the statement at the Indonesia-China Trade and Industrial Cooperation Seminar in Jakarta on Thursday.

He noted that cooperation between Indonesia and China has been quite good in the past two decades.

In the period from 2019 to 2023, China's investment in Indonesia reached US$28....