China, Indonesia to deepen comprehensive strategic partnership

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo agreed to further deepen the comprehensive strategic partnership between their two countries.

The two leaders shared the view of pushing forward bilateral relations to wider areas and deeper levels, according to a joint communique released as Xi is in Indonesia for the Asian-African Summit and commemorative activities for the historic 1955 Bandung Conference.

They also agreed to strengthen policy coordination, practical cooperation and exchanges of experience from each civilization, and forge a maritime partnership for common development and shared prosperity, according to China's Xinhua News Agency.

China and Indonesia will jointly strive for the new bilateral trade target of 150 billion US dollars by 2020, work towards reducing tariff and non-tariff trade barriers, and increase the frequency of trade missions between the two countries.