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COORDINATING Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment, Luhut Binsar Panjaitan believes President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) will meet the CEO of Tesla Inc. Elon Musk on a working visit to the United States.
“Oh yeah, we’ll meet, we’re setting up where to meet. Now the Tesla team is in my office talking, last night we had lunch, dinner tomorrow, and tomorrow we will visit Morowali,” said Luhut at the Jakarta Presidential Office, Monday. (5/9).
President Jokowi is scheduled to attend a Special Summit (Summit) between the Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the United States which will take place in Washington D.C. on 12-13 May 2022.
“Earlier they were very satisfied with the data they got to this day,” said Luhut.
On April 26, 2022, through his Instagram account, Luhut shared his experience with Elon Musk at the Tesla Electric Car Factory.
Luhut admitted that he had been in communication for the past two years with Tesla. Luhut said the Twitter owner was interested in investing in the nickel industry in Indonesia, which Elon Musk considered very promising to supply raw materials for electric car batteries.
In the upload, Luhut said that President Jokowi would visit SpaceX on May 14, 2022. Apart from Elon Musk, Luhut said that the government’s policy to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during Eid Al-Fitr 1443 Hijriah could be considered a success.
“Yes, it is very successful, we can say, but we can’t be happy with this, ‘anything could be happened’. Like in the United States, cases can suddenly rise to 100 thousand cases per day,” said Luhut.
Until now, Luhut emphasized that the government remains cautious in making PPKM policies, including in Java and Bali.
“We recommend WFH 1-2 this week. We leave the 50% or what percentage setting to each office because we are very mobile for almost 2 weeks, although so far, we haven’t seen any increase, 2 weeks after this we will only determine,” Luhut revealed. [antaranews/photo special]
