한-BIMP-EAGA 협력포털

 

 

2023 BIMP-EAGA Strategic Planning Meeting

 

 

Source: Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia

 

 

 

The 2023 BIMP-EAGA Strategic Planning Meeting (SPM) was held in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei between February 6 and February 8, 2023. Approximately 150 people attended the meeting, including Netty Muharni, the deputy minister of the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs of Indonesia who also served as the chairman of the meeting; senior managers of the BIMP-EAGA Coordinating Secretariat and the Asian Development Bank; and delegations from the four BIMP countries. The participants discussed the previous year's performance report in the fields of 'connection, environment, trade, tourism, social, cultural, and education', as well as the direction of cooperation in 2023. They also evaluated the ‘Rolling Pipeline (RPoPs) 2020-2022’ project, which is part of Priority Infrastructure Projects (PIPs), with strengthening connectivity as a key theme at the 2023 BIMP-EAGA SPM, and discussed the items to be supplemented in the next stage of the project, known as the ‘Rolling Pipeline (RPoPs) 2023-2025’. BIMP-EAGA planned 104 PIPs in 2017 and completed 45 in 2022, ten projects are in the final stage and 49 are in progress. In 2022, 10 new projects were added to connect farms and markets and to promote trade in border areas.

 

Chairperson Netti Muharni said that “there is a need to create new strategies so that the programs currently being promoted at BIMP-EAGA can actively respond to global dynamics and megatrends. Connectivity should be expanded by immediately opening sea, land and air routes that were closed due to the pandemic, and through the economic corridor, trade and investment and tourism should be stimulated to promote economic growth”. She further added that active exchanges in the border area should be made by resuming air routes linking Kuching, Malaysia with Pontianak, Indonesia and Davao, the Philippines with Manado, Indonesia, maritime route connecting Bitung Port, Indonesia with General Santos Port, the Philippines, and the operation of the Indonesian public bus (DAMRI) between Indonesia Pontianak and Brunei.

 

Through this meeting, the participants expected that the shrinking economy of the subregion would be revitalized by increasing production and creating jobs through strengthening the institutional foundation of the BIMP-EAGA and by working closely together with EAGA's local government officials and private actors. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

[References]
· Brunei News Gazette, 2023. BIMP-EAGA Strategic Planning Meeting.

(As of 2023. 02. 06. https://www.bruneinewsgazette.com/bimp-eaga-strategic-planning-meeting/)
· Kementerian Koordinator Bidang Perekonomian Republik Indonesia, 2023. Siapkan Strategi Baru Implementasi Program Kerja Berkelanjutan, Strategic Planning Meeting BIMP-EAGA Kembali Digelar.

(As of 2023. 02. 09. https://ekon.go.id/publikasi/detail/4911/siapkan-strategi-baru-implementasi-program-kerja-berkelanjutan-strategic-planning-meeting-bimp-eaga-kembali-digelar)