REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Indonesia is interested to participate in the building of railway linking Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states. The rail network plan comes as part of a larger drive to increase infrastructure projects across the GCC.
"Indonesia eyes the construction project (in the country)," Indonesian Ambassador to Oman, Sukanto, said on Wednesday, December 17. Sukanto did not give further details of the constructing companies participating in the project.
Indonesia has been cooperating with Oman since 1978. However, it is officially launched in 2010 as Indonesia opened its embassy in Oman. Since then, Indonesia has been exporting food and automotive parts to Oman.
Director of National Export Expansion, Dody Edward, said Indonesia trade to Oman is deficit in the last for years, but Oman was a prospective country with big market potency.