{"id":178,"date":"2018-07-17T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T09:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2018\/07\/17\/indian-influence-in-indonesia\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:09:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:09:36","slug":"indian-influence-in-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2018\/07\/17\/indian-influence-in-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian influence in Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <em>The Times of India<\/em>, the officials\u2019 visit saw an investment forum take place in the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh between the two countries, with the forum including Indian firms based in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and officials from the Andaman &amp; Nicobar Administration.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Times of India<\/em> said that India will work to develop basic infrastructure in the area, while both nations are looking at sea transportation, tourism and air transport connectivity to facilitate India\u2013Indonesia trade.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper also said that Indonesian officials at the meeting said that \u201cthe authorities would facilitate Indian investments in the region and trade relations with India\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Following the visit of Mr Modi, President of Indonesia Joko Widodo had told a news conference: \u201cIndia is a strategic defence partner &#8230; and we will continue to advance our co-operation in developing infrastructure, including at Sabang island and the Andaman Islands.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Indian officials have visited Indonesia to look at means of boosting connectivity between the former country\u2019s Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the latter\u2019s Sumatra island \u2014 less than two months after a trip to Indonesia by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi saw India agree to develop Indonesia\u2019s Sabang port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}