The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organised a talk on “Global and Regional Uncertainty and the Prospects for India-Indonesia Relations” on 10 November, 2022. Dr. Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF, chaired the session and gave welcome remarks. The talk was delivered by Her Excellency Ina Haniningtyas Krishnamurthi, the Indonesian Ambassador to India.

Ambassador emphasised that while the world faces a number of geopolitical and economic challenges, India and Indonesia, with their shared close relations, could become the anchors of peace, stability, security, and development through cooperation. G20 was given a special focus during the talk as India will be taking the presidency of the same for the next year which would coincide with Indonesia’s chairing of the ASEAN. This would provide both the countries opportunities to work together on a number of geopolitical and economic challenges in the region.

A wide range of issues including post-pandemic recovery, Russia- Ukraine war as well as the disruption of global supply chain, security and maritime cooperation, relations with ASEAN, food and energy security, blue economy, digitalisation, technology, public health and counter-terrorism were discussed.