Prabowo in Brussels to seal European Union deal amid US tariff threat

President Prabowo Subianto disembarks the presidential airplane at the Brasilia Air Force Base in the Brazilian capital city of Brasilia on July 7, 2025. Prabowo is slated to meet with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a bilateral meeting to strengthen the cooperation between Indonesia and Brazil. - Photo: Courtesy of Presidential Secretariat/Kris

JAKARTA: With trade tensions between the United States and its partners on the rise, President Prabowo Subianto arrived in Brussels over the weekend in a bid to finalise Indonesia’s most ambitious trade pact yet, the Indonesia-European Union Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IEU-CEPA).

The trip follows the completion of substantive negotiations between Jakarta and Brussels, with both sides now preparing to sign the deal in Jakarta later this year.