President Prabowo Subianto officially invited Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to visit Indonesia in return for his two-day visit to Islamabad on December 8-9, 2025.
In a joint statement session after a bilateral meeting at the official residence of the Pakistani PM (PM House), Islamabad, Tuesday (9/12), President Prabowo also invited other Pakistani leaders to visit Indonesia.
"I officially invite Prime Minister Sharif to visit Indonesia, and also other Pakistani leaders to come to Indonesia, to see each other and perhaps provide us with guidance and insights to jointly strengthen cooperation between the two countries," President Prabowo told PM Sharif.
President Prabowo made his first visit to Pakistan and visited PM House to lead a bilateral meeting with PM Sharif. In what both leaders described as a productive meeting, they discussed various issues, including enhancing cooperation in trade and investment, education, particularly vocational training, culture, and health.
During a series of events at PM House, the two leaders also witnessed the exchange of cooperation agreements and memorandums of understanding (MoUs) signed between Indonesia and Pakistan. The seven agreements cover health, education, scholarship assistance, halal product certification and development, archives, and drug trafficking prevention and eradication.
President Prabowo and PM Sharif, in their respective statements, revealed that the two countries agreed to balance the trade balance, which is currently dominated by palm oil imports from Indonesia.
President Prabowo, in the presence of PM Sharif, said he had instructed his ministers to find concrete ways to restore balance between the two countries' trade balance.
Meanwhile, PM Sharif revealed that the trade value between the two countries reached 4.5 billion US dollars, but 90 percent of it was dominated by palm oil imports from Indonesia.
He said there are several strategies to boost Pakistan's exports to Indonesia, including exports of agricultural products, information technology (IT), and other underdeveloped sectors.
