Mlambo-Ngcuka's campaign for SA economy continues

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Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the deputy president, is meeting Indonesian government and business executives as part of her four-day working visit to Indonesia. She has been promoting the government's economic growth plan, ASGISA. Through the New Africa-Asia Strategic Plan, South Africa has seized the opportunity to consolidate its economic relations with the South East Asian nation.

Despite the relative warm diplomatic relations that exists between the two countries, there has been little Indonesian investment in South Africa, in the past decade. The bilateral trade balance remains in favour of Indonesia, which exports commodities such as vegetable oil, fabrics, natural rubber and paper.

It is expected that Mlambo-Ngcuka will use her interactions with Jusuf Kalla, her Indonesian counterpart, to ask him to urge local companies to import more value added products from South Africa.