Indonesian Foreign Minister Dr. Marty M. Natalegawa is visiting India for the fourth round of Joint Commission Meeting at the Foreign Minister-level on Friday. An External Affairs Ministry release says that both sides will take stock of the bilateral relationship and identify areas for future cooperation between the two countries. Foreign Minister Natalegawa will also address the Indian Council of World Affairs in New Delhi on Indonesian views of the world today on the same day.

India and Indonesia enjoy an excellent relationship based on a solid foundation of age-old cultural and commercial linkages.

The relationship was further strengthened following the signing of strategic partnership in 2005.

AIR correspondent reports that Indonesia is an important member of ASEAN and a partner in India's Look East Policy. The bilateral trade between the two countries has touched 20 billion dollars. India and Indonesia enjoy close cooperation in trade and investment, energy, agriculture, science and technology, space, coal, oil and gas, defence and other areas.