Today in Astana Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Bakytzhan Sagintayev met with Vice President of Indonesia Jusuf Kalla.

During the meeting, issues of expanding cooperation between the two countries in various spheres of the economy, science and technology, as well as between financial and investment structures of the two countries in the field of Islamic banking were discussed.

B. Sagintayev expressed gratitude to J. Kalla for participation in the First OIC Summit on Science and Technology and assured that Kazakhstan is interested in expanding cooperation through the allocation of the leading Islamic financial organizations of Indonesia in the Astana International Financial Center (AIFC), as well as in creating joint Kazakh-Indonesian Islamic financial institutions on its basis.

The topic of implementing the initiative of the Head of our State N. Nazarbayev on creating a system of food security in the space of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation was also touched.

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Indonesia is the fourth largest country in the world with a GDP of $932 billion for 2016 and is the recognized leader in Southeast Asia, which has become one of the locomotives of the world economy.

The volume of foreign trade turnover between Kazakhstan and Indonesia in the first half of 2017 amounted to $15.2 million, which is 65.3% higher than the same period in 2016.