A large Belgian economic mission, presided over by Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid, as representative of His Majesty King Philippe, visited Indonesia from 12 to 19 March 2016.
The Belgian economic mission was the fifth in its kind to Indonesia. With 301 participants, the biggest Belgian mission ever to Indonesia is a landmark in the stronger growing ties between the two nations. The mission took 301 delegates to three different Indonesian cities: Jakarta, Bogor and Bandung.

In total 127 companies participated in the economic mission. They actively participated in B2B’s, high-level conferences, seminars, official meetings, networking opportunities and cultural events that the five main organizers of the mission have lined up for them, namely, the three regional trade promoting agencies (FIT, AWEX and BI&E), the Belgian Foreign Trade Agency and the Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs.

EIBN successfully supported mainly the FIT Agency in Jakarta in setting up meetings with Indonesian partners for several of the participating Belgian companies in the mission, from 14 to 16 of March.