Jokowi Meets Italian Prime Minister to Discuss Creative Economy

Brisbane (Antara)- President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo held a bilateral meeting with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to discuss cooperation in the creative economic field, on the sidelines of G20 Summit, here, Saturday morning. "(We discuss) cooperation in the field of creative economic including leather and garment products," President Jokowi said. In addition of the fashion product, the two leaders also discussed cooperation in palm oil product for European market. Jokowi is in Brisbane, Australia, to attend the G20 Summit for the first time since his presidential inauguration on October 20, 2014. Upon his arrival, he held a bilateral meeting with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, and later he met Indonesian community in Brisbane. He is scheduled to leave Australia for Jakarta on Sunday evening (Nov. 16). Earlier, when he participated in the APEC Summit in Beijing on Nov. 10-11, and the East Asian Summit (EAS) in Myanmar, on Nov 13, Jokowi had held bilateral meetings respectively with Chinese Prime Minister Xi Jinping, Chinese President Li Keqiang, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key and US President Barack Obama. (*)