Industry, Trade and Investments Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria is to lead a Kenyan delegation for benchmarking in Indonesia.
The CS noted that the benchmarking set to last three days will allow the delegation to explore partnership areas between Kenya and Indonesia.
“We will explore Trade and Investment partnerships in several sectors including Edible Oils, Mining, Renewable Energy, Blue Economy, Pharmaceuticals, Meat & Livestock, Electric Mobility, Textile and Apparel, Coffee, Tea, Nuts and Flowers,” CS Kuria stated.
According to Kuria, the government will devise ways to apply the value-addition models employed by Indonesia to grow Kenya’s GDP.
Moreover, Moses Kuria noted that Kenya has been exporting unprocessed resources like Soda Ash for years, a move that denies the country revenue.
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“We will take time to carefully study and benchmark how Indonesia has tremendously grown her GDP through the value addition of natural resources and seek to apply the same models on resources like Soda Ash in Magadi which has been shipped away unprocessed for decades thus denying Kenya huge revenues.” He added.
Nonetheless, the benchmarking visit comes a few months after President William Ruto hosted a delegation of Indonesian ministers at State House Nairobi.
In the delegation led by General (Rtd) Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan they discussed areas of cooperation in different sectors, including trade, mining, energy, defense, and security.
