Indonesia Bonding With Cambodia in Trade
…Indonesia was involved in advanced talks in Cambodia during the late 1980s. Known as the Jakarta Informal Meeting, Indonesia was trying to help put an end to Vietnam’s invasion of Cambodia, in what some observers called the Third Indochina War (1978-91). Despite these close ties, however, Indonesia has been slow to benefit from trade and investment with Cambodia, often finding itself behind other countries eager to get a foothold in the country. Indonesia’s exports to Cambodia last year were worth about $220 million, according to Soehardjono. That is a tiny drop in the $12.3 billion in total trade that Cambodia did last year. China and Thailand made up more than half (52.5 percent) of Cambodia’s imports of $6.9 billion last year, while the United States accounts for the lion’s share of Cambodia’s exports (41.5 percent), according to the CIA World Factbook. …
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