REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, DENPASAR -- Indonesia held separate meetings with four other countries taking part in the 4th Asia Europe Transport Minister Meeting (ASEM TMM) here on Thursday.

Transport Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said Indonesia discussed cooperation in infrastructure development in the country with South Korea, Singapore, Hungary and China in this Bali provincial city.

"We also held meeting with the European Union to offer a number of infrastructure projects. They welcome the offer. With Korea we talked about possible investment related to operation of a number of airports," Budi said.

With Singaporean delegation the minister discussed possible support by Singapore for Indonesia's bid in International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and International Maritime Organization(IMO) as well as possible cooperation to increase capacity.

"With the Singaporean delegation we support each other in ICAO and IMO. The Singaporean delegation strongly suggested cooperation to promote capacity through additional connectivity," Budi said .

With the Chinese delegation discussion had been focused on a number of projects including the Kualanamu Airport and Kuala Tanjung port in North Sumatra, he said.

"With China we talked much about the two projects in North Sumatra - Kualanamu and Kuala Tanjung.Work is already in process in the two projects. I also specially asked the Chinese to accelerate implementation of the Jakarta-Bandung high speed railway project," he said.

Discussion with the delegation from Hungary is cooperation in education sector. The Hungarians also offered to handle railway and airport projects and passenger bus industry.

With the EU discussion is over expansion of air transport routes between Indonesia and the EU countries, he said.

Budi said he was glad that those delegations have been enthusiastic in hearing the projects and expressed support for Indonesian economic development.

"They welcome and appreciate the infrastructure project offers, which have been presented with exhibition and brochures complete with all details of the projects and results of feasibility studies," he said.

He said the next steps is 'one on one meeting' with private investors and those delegations to follow up on the result of the bilateral meetings. 

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