The empty Indonesian ambassador to the US in the middle of the Trump tariff negotiation

Jakarta – The negotiation road was selected by Indonesia after the president of United States Donald Trump announced the implementation of reciprocal tariff policies. But in the midst of the negotiations, Indonesia was not definitely after the United States for almost two years. The position of the Indonesian ambassador to the United States was last held by Rosan Roeslani, who was appointed on October 25, 2021. After more than one year in office, Rosan was appointed Deputy Minister of Bumn on July 17, 2023. Rosan was later appointed Minister of Investment. The position was re -entrusted to him in the era of President Prabowo Subianto’s administration. In addition, Rosan was also appointed CEO and in between. Browse to continue the content, so far the position of the Indonesian ambassador for the United States has not yet been filled. This emptiness is in the public spotlight, especially amid Indonesia’s efforts to negotiate related to President Trump’s trading tariffs. Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Indonesia Arif Has Oegroseno talked about the vacancy of the Indonesian ambassador for the US. He said the position of the Indonesian ambassador to the US has not yet been filled because of the government’s change. Havas also assessed the empty of the ambassador’s seat will not affect the US tariff policy negotiation process. He believes that the Indonesian delegation will be able to negotiate related to US President Donald Trump. According to him, the deletion team, which will be led by the coordinating minister of the Economy Airlangga Hartarto, could have been able to negotiate with the US at a high -level meeting. Because the negotiation process is carried out on posts equivalent to the minister. “Yes, we, if this (negotiation process) is already a high level (high -level meeting),” Havas said, reports on Monday (7/4/2025) by Antara. This is known, the Indonesian government has now set up a number of negotiating packages that will be brought into negotiations to oppose the US reciprocal or reciprocal tariff policy in the Washington DC coordinating minister of the Airlangga economy, assessed that the diplomacy path was chosen as a mutual beneficial solution without the termination of the reciprocal tariff. But the Indonesian government will hold a meeting with the leaders of Asean countries on April 10, 2025 to level attitudes. “Indonesia itself will encourage various agreements and with various ASEAN countries, the Minister of Trade also communicates in addition to Malaysia as well as Singapore, with Cambodia and others to calibrate the attitude of asean,” Airlangga said. In the meeting with business operations, the government said it had prepared several negotiation packages. First, Indonesia will submit revival of trade and investment assembly agreements or trade and investment framework agreement (TIFA). “Because Tifa itself was signed bilaterally in 1996 and many issues are no longer relevant, we will encourage (revive) different policies in Tifa,” Airlangga said. Secondly, the government will provide a proposal for the non-tariff measures (NTMS) deregulation through the relaxation of the domestic component level (TKDN) in the information and communication technology sector. Then the evaluation is related to the ban and limitation of US export and imported goods. The third solution that Indonesia is trying to bring is to increase US imports and investments through oil and gas purchases. Then, in fourth place, the government prepares fiscal and non-physical incentives through various strategies such as reduced import tax, import tax or import VAT to encourage US imports and maintain export competitiveness to the US. “Related to the tariff and how we increase imports, how with our export imports that can be filled up to 18 billion US dollars with products we import, including wheat, cotton and even one of them, are oil and gas products,” Airlangga said. (KNV/KNV) HOEGENG Awards 2025 Read the inspiring story of the exemplary police candidate here