{"title":"Indonesia- Nigeria Foreign Economic Relations: A Partnership for Economic Development","authors":"I. Bello, K. Musa, Asmau Isyaku Dutse, M. Bashir","doi":"10.2991/UICOSP-17.2017.35","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Bilateral relations between Federal Republic Nigeria and Republic of Indonesia is traced to 1965 when Indonesia opened its first diplomatic mission in Sub Saharan Africa in Lagos Nigeria, Nigeria reciprocated in 1976 by opening a diplomatic mission in Jakarta. Since then Nigeria-Indonesia has enjoyed fruitful diplomatic and economic relations. These paper aims to investigate the volume of bilateral economic agreements and trades between both countries. The paper utilises secondary sources of data. The research finding shows that both countries enjoy several bilateral economic relations, in 2001 both countries signed Economic and Technical Cooperation agreement for establishing a Joint commission. Also, Nigeria was Indonesia’s largest trade partner in Africa as at 2014 with total trade volume standing at USD 3.9 million. Also, notable Indonesia companies in Nigeria includes Sayap Mas Utama, Indorama, Kalbe Farma and Dufil (Indomie) which is the largest producer of noodles in the country. This shows that Indonesia has significantly invested in industrialisation via non-oil sector the study thereby concludes that Nigeria can learn from Indonesia to improve its drive for non-oil export towards facilitating economic development. Keywords—economic relations, development trade, indonesia,","PeriodicalId":39353,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Cooperation and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Economic Cooperation and Development","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2991/UICOSP-17.2017.35","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Bilateral relations between Federal Republic Nigeria and Republic of Indonesia is traced to 1965 when Indonesia opened its first diplomatic mission in Sub Saharan Africa in Lagos Nigeria, Nigeria reciprocated in 1976 by opening a diplomatic mission in Jakarta. Since then Nigeria-Indonesia has enjoyed fruitful diplomatic and economic relations. These paper aims to investigate the volume of bilateral economic agreements and trades between both countries. The paper utilises secondary sources of data. The research finding shows that both countries enjoy several bilateral economic relations, in 2001 both countries signed Economic and Technical Cooperation agreement for establishing a Joint commission. Also, Nigeria was Indonesia’s largest trade partner in Africa as at 2014 with total trade volume standing at USD 3.9 million. Also, notable Indonesia companies in Nigeria includes Sayap Mas Utama, Indorama, Kalbe Farma and Dufil (Indomie) which is the largest producer of noodles in the country. This shows that Indonesia has significantly invested in industrialisation via non-oil sector the study thereby concludes that Nigeria can learn from Indonesia to improve its drive for non-oil export towards facilitating economic development. Keywords—economic relations, development trade, indonesia,
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ournal of Economic Cooperation and Development (ISSN 1308-7800), previously titled the Journal of Economic Cooperation among Islamic Countries (ISSN 0252 - 953X), is a journal of applied research in development economics. The Journal welcomes original papers dealing with important economic and social issues of immediate concern to the developing countries. It will give special attention to those papers which deal with the potentials for and possibilities of promoting and expanding economic and technical cooperation among the developing countries. The Journal appears in English, in March, June, September and December. The Journal is indexed/abstracted in SCOPUS, JEL/Econlit, i-Journals, i-Focus and i-Future.