T
he President’s visit, which was part of a week-
long, four-country tour across Europe that
included Germany, Great Britain, Belgium and
the Netherlands, aimed to strengthen the bilateral
political and economic cooperation between Indonesia and
these European nations.
OnApril 18, PresidentWidodomeet in Berlin, Germany,
with President Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Angela
Merkel, participated in a business forum, conducted five
During President Joko Widodo visit
to Germany on April 2016, EKONID
took on the task of facilitating a
major business forum between
German businesses and the President
and introduced the German Dual
Vocational Education System.
F e a t u r e d H I G H L I G H T E V E N T S
A Presidential Visit
high level One-on-One business leader meetings and his
only site visit brought him to a SIEMENS Dual Vocational
Education facility.
The German – Indonesian Business Forum
The business forum, initiated and supported by EKONID,
organized by the Asia-Pacific Committee of German
Business (APA), was attended by over 200 CEOs and top-
level management representatives fromGerman companies
and government officials as well as a number of Indonesian
ministers and a delegation of 42 Indonesian business
leaders.
Opened by the APA Chairman Dr. Hubert Lienhard and
the Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry
for Economic Affairs and Energy Ms. Iris Gleicke, President
Widodo addressed the audience in German language with
the statement “Ich bin ein Kölner” [I am a Cologner] in
reference to President Kennedy’s famous statement and
his own experience in Germany as furniture exhibitor at
IMM in the city of Cologne, 15 years before, which earned
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