Question- Where was the first ‘India Indonesia Energy Forum’ meeting held recently?
(a) New Delhi
(b) Bali
(c) Jakarta
(d) Bangalore
Ans: (c)
Related facts:-
- On April 20, 2017 the first meeting of ‘India Indonesia Energy Forum’ was held in Jakarta.
- In this meeting, Central Minister of state for Electricity, Energy, Mineral Resources, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and mine, Piyush Goyal and Ignasius Jonan Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources of Indonesia, participated.
- Before the Energy Forum meeting, meeting of the second Joint Working Group on Oil and Gas, the fourth Joint Working Group on Coal and the first Joint Working Group on New and Renewable Energy were held.
- During the Energy Forum meeting, reports of these three Joint Working Groups were presented before the counterparts of the two countries.
- A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on behalf of Government of India’s Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of Indonesia in the Oil and Gas Sector.
- Under this agreement a co-operative framework will be established for mutual benefit.
- It is important that India is the third largest importer of coal from Indonesia.
- India imported $ 3.5 billion worth of coal from Indonesia in 2016.
- The bilateral trade between the two countries during 2015-16 was US $ 15.90 billion.
- In which Indonesia’s export was US $ 13.06 billion and India’s exports was 2.84 billion US dollars.
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