Jakarta, June 4 -- Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto reaffirmed Indonesia's commitment to the multilateral trading system during a meeting with World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in Paris on Tuesday, local time.

"The WTO has a key and irreplaceable role in promoting and strengthening the rules-based multilateral trading system," he noted in a statement on Wednesday.

He also discussed several developments in the national agenda with the WTO, including issues related to agriculture, fisheries, and trade in electronic systems.

The WTO serves as a forum for negotiating international trade agreements and includes a dispute settlement mechanism. The organization currently has 166 m...