VIEW: INDONESIA TRADE: Colleague Charles Ortel living in Indonesia comments on the ambitions of the most populous Muslim state following a trade deal with Washington. More to come.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:54.4 | everything secure. This is John Batchel speaking to colleague Charles Ortel. He's in Southeast Asia, |
| 1:02.4 | residents in Indonesia traveling in Malaysia. The news is that the U.S. has reached a trade deal |
| 1:08.9 | with Indonesia, one of the early trade deals for the Trump |
| 1:12.2 | administration, satisfactory to both sides. And is it positive for Indonesia? The question I asked |
| 1:18.6 | Charles, what does Indonesia have to do with the United States? Charles answers, a great deal. |
| 1:24.7 | Here's Charles Ortel on Indonesia, the most populous of all Muslim states for the future, |
| 1:31.7 | a capitalist state looking for investment, looking for trade, looking for growth. |
| 1:37.0 | More of this tonight. |
| 1:38.4 | Yes, absolutely. |
| 1:39.9 | I think it's very positive. |
| 1:42.6 | And it will probably lead to great things. |
| 1:44.7 | The other thing to remember is that in Indonesia, wealth is concentrated. |
| 1:48.5 | And there are a lot of big families with a lot of capital who, obviously they know how to take Indonesia risk, |
| 1:56.5 | but they're interested in forging cross country, you know, cross-border ties to put a portion of |
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