The Business Development Meeting of the Turkey-Indonesia Trade Delegation was held with the participation of the Turkish and Indonesian businesspeople in coordination with the Export Promotion Commission of the Independent Industrialists and Businessmen’s Association (MUSIAD).

Organized under the leadership of MUSIAD, the Turkey-Indonesia Business Development meeting was attended by 70 businesspeople from Indonesia and 100 businesspeople from Turkey, namely Davut Altunbaş the Vice-Chairperson of MUSIAD, Abdülkadir Sıcakyüz the Export Promotion Commission President, Meryem İlbahar the Women Commission President, Osman Nuri Önügören the Deputy President of the Diplomatic Relations Commission, Doddy Cleveland Hidayat Putra the Indonesian Representative of MUSIAD, Thalita Evani Hindarto the Vice-Consular of the Consulate General of Indonesia in Istanbul, as well as Mutia Octavia the Indonesian President and Ali Çetin the Turkish President of the Indonesia-Turkey Fraternity Association.

Assessing the event, Davut Altunbaş the Vice-Chairperson of MUSIAD stated, “MUSIAD is an international commerce network with a presence at 84 points at home and at 165 points in 81 countries abroad. It makes a contribution to the global economy by providing employment opportunities to about 2 million people in many places around the world through more than 60,000 companies. No matter which continent and country you go to today, MUSIAD branches, representatives, as well as the companies within its network, are ready to provide you with any support.”

Stating that Indonesia was one of the most important countries in the Asia region, Altunbaş continued,

“Indonesia has a steady and stable county position. Indonesia has important opportunities for Turkish businesspeople. At the business meeting we held here as MUSIAD, we had significant B2Bs for the improvements of both export and import of Indonesia with Turkey. Considering the demands of the businesspeople attending the Indonesian Business Forum during the pandemic, we once more determined the necessity to examine well the import countries of Indonesia.”

Altunbaş, who announced that Free Trade Agreements would be signed by these two countries within the year, stated that they predicted that thanks to these agreements, the trade volume between these countries would increase to 10 million dollars by 2023, and he said, “We wish to do Free Zone business through the agreements to be executed by these 2 countries in 2021.”

Stating that the Business Development Meeting of the Turkey-Indonesia Trade Delegation was a highly important step in terms of the improvement of the mutual trade between Turkey and Indonesia, Abdulkadir Sıcakyüz the Export Promotion Commission President mentioned the importance of the contacts made at the event.

Sıcakyüz indicated,

“As the Export Promotion Commission of MUSIAD, we had more than 50 B2Bs. While new partnerships were developed through the Indonesia Business Meeting, there was a warm ambiance created by the leading businesses of Indonesia and the MUSIAD members. Such activities will be continued in order for MUSIAD members, who have an important role in the production, employment, and export of Turkey, to get into new markets and be able to do value-added trade. As the Export Promotion Commission, we primarily plan to carry out activities in terms of reports, training, foreign business travels, procurement committee organizations, commercial diplomacy, relationships with foreign branches/representative offices, and access to incentives and supports. Accordingly, we expect the participation of our members in all these events to be organized by the Head Office, Branches, and Sector Committees.”

Giving a speech in the program, Meryem İlbahar the Women Commission President of MUSIAD pointed out the actions taken and said, “With the projects, we aim to witness our members improving their trade thanks to MUSIAD and MUSIAD Women Commission, and maybe even their first exports and first initiatives.”

İlbahar indicated,

“We are happy to see that most of the businesspeople in the trade delegation representing Indonesia are women. MUSIAD Women Commission proceeds on its way to become the most widespread and extensive Business Women’s Organization in Turkey, with the support of MUSIAD that is the largest capital platform in Turkey. Accordingly, in line with our establishment purpose, we care much about the presence of women and women entrepreneurs in business life and also in non-governmental organizations.”

Beginning her speech by thanking MUSIAD for hosting such an organization, Mutia Octavia the Indonesian President of the Indonesia-Turkey Fraternity Association said, “We had a mutually good business meeting between the committees.”

Octavia added, “The Turkish economy develops every passing day. As Indonesian people, we also try to keep pace with this development, and we are proud of making a contribution to our national economy. We believe that meeting of Turkish and Indonesian businesspeople also in the upcoming period will be useful for the improvement of the trade between these two countries. Therefore, we should always gather Indonesian businesspeople and the businesspeople from MUSIAD.”

On the other hand, while the Turkish and Indonesian businesspeople had B2B meetings under the program, the participants had the chance to mutually share their project and work presentations.