If I look back over the past year, the story lines surrounding Indonesia have mostly been negative. Of course, part of the reason is that the main principle of the media is that \u201cbad news sells\u201d. On Indonesia\u2019s side there have been natural disasters (flooding, mudslides, eruptions etc.), commercial concerns (halal import restrictions, local content rules for data and other products), disputes over mining contracts, WTO rulings), terrorism attacks, and the ugliness of the Jakarta governor\u2019s election. On the US side have been the concerns over Muslims traveling to the US, the withdrawal from TPP, and Indonesia\u2019s inclusion in the Commerce Department\u2019s review of countries with large trade deficits.<\/p>\n
However, as we learned from Ambassador Donovan during our recent conference call, some of the open questions resulting from President Trump\u2019s 2016 election were answered during Vice President Pence\u2019s April visit as well as the strong delegation Indonesia sent to the TIFA talks in Washington in June (trade and investment framework agreement). Although much remains to be done to maximize US-Indonesia commercial relations, things seem to be on track and both sides are actively engaged. (Click the link in the events listing to the left to hear the Ambassador\u2019s remarks on rewind).<\/p>\n
We at AICC (working with our partners KADIN and other organizations such as USABC, US Chamber, AMCHAM and Asia Society) are now busy working on the first-ever US-Indonesia Women\u2019s CEO Summit, featuring a keynote by Indonesia\u2019s Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati. We hope it will present an alternate, more positive narrative. Increasingly Indonesian women are a potent force in Indonesia\u2019s economy, belying the country\u2019s image as a Islamic nation where women stay at home after they are married.<\/p>\n
Just as the American economy of the 1970\u2019s and 80\u2019s–challenged as it was by a rebuilt Japan and Germany–depended on women joining the workforce in large numbers, Indonesia\u2019s economic future will increasingly depend on women, not just for their ability as consumers but also for their own unique technical and leadership qualities.<\/p>\n
To date we have received commitments from some stellar and visionary women from within and outside our membership who will be participating. We are working closely with Melanne Verveer, Director of Georgetown University\u2019s Institute for Women, Peace, and Security, who elevated the role of women in international affairs as President Obama\u2019s Ambassador-at-large for Women\u2019s Issues as well as Shinta Kamdani Widjaja, CEO of the Sintesa Group, a special advisor to Indonesia\u2019s Vice President, and one of Indonesia\u2019s leaders on women\u2019s entrepreneurship. Other companies that are slated to have a women C-Suiter participate are: Freeport McMoRan, PT Cigna Indonesia, Citibank, PT Sinkona Indonesia Lestari, SSEK LLP, White & Case LLP, PT Thamrin Group and several others. If you know someone we should consider, please let me know.<\/p>\n
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SAVE THE DATE: OCTOBER 11, 2017<\/span> If I look back over the past year, the story lines surrounding Indonesia have mostly been negative. Of course, part of the reason is that the main principle of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,7,60,33,6,25,1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aicc","category-american-indonesian-chamber-of-commerce","category-cow","category-indonesia-elections","category-jokowi","category-outlook-indonesia","category-uncategorized","category-wayne-forrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiccusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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