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sudden surge an Britain's

interest in Indonesas

AJASTHd that the

StemBed from

and thought

firs. Thatcher's visit there As part of Par tour of South East ASIA.

She had apparently been very smpressed by what she saw,

that BritÄIN Should develop closer relations, both politically and

trade. When pressed as to why at needed to take a visit from the

Minister to wake Britain up to the opportunities in

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Indones13 "

nr. Renton defended Britaan's position by saying that until recently

Indonesia had not had a strong economy,

had a strong economy, but with the development of

and gas in the ares

now 8 force so he reckoned with.

IndonesIA Was not burdened With A large foreign deht, but still

short of hard currency. Now that many countries were

potential there And were

WAS

fighting for a share of the market #

aware of the

BUSINESSjern would have to fight very hard for their share,

British

Again

however, HA SAIO, IngoneSLA VOuld favour those countries which gave

the best soft-loan teras.

Un the question of the Djakarta meeting attended by British

From eleven nations in the region,

dupi omatic representatiYWS

Mr. Kenton said that these

Close political.

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rk

specifically countries WHICH MAd

LINK WIDA ASKAR, OF Which Had Close trading links.

an addition to the Aubassadors from the SIX ASLAN nations,

and

there were Also the British Ambassadors from Vietnam and Burmay

from the Brahash MSS1085 3.n Japan, Hong Kong and

representatives

bruna.

Many questions

discusspert, Were

the luring the current

Une pha lippines, Cambodia and hast

LIMQY. Un the

present state of uncertainty in the Philippines, Nr. Kenton said that

nastorically Britain had very fey

extregely

with the Philappanes,

and

Whilst In Djakarta he had