Indonesia will join Trans-Pacific trade pact: Widodo

AFP

27/10/2015

01:05 MYT

Indonesia will join Trans-Pacific trade pact: Widodo

Indonesia intends to join the TPP, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said during a visit to the White House.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo said during a visit to the White House on Monday that he would seek to join a vast US-backed trans-Pacific trade bloc, signaling a challenge to economic nationalism at home.

"Indonesia is an open economy and with a population of 250 million, we are the largest economy in Southeast Asia," Widodo said after meeting President Barack Obama. "Indonesia intends to join the TPP."