Industry, Trade and Investments CS Moses Kuria will lead a Kenyan delegation for benchmarking in Indonesia.
The three-day benchmarking visit, according to the CS, will see the delegation explore possible partnership areas between Kenya and Indonesia.
"We will explore Trade and Investment partnerships in several sectors including Edible Oils, Mining, Renewable Energy, Blue Economy, Pharmaceuticals, Meat & Livestock, Electric Mobility, Textile and Apparel, Coffee, Tea, Nuts and Flowers," Kuria said.
He further noted that the government will work out ways to implement the value-addition models employed by the host country to grow Kenya's GDP.
Kuria said Kenya has been exporting unprocessed resources like Soda Ash for years, a move that denies the country revenue.
"We will take time to carefully study and benchmark how Indonesia has tremendously grown her GDP through the value addition of natural resources and seek to apply the same models on resources like Soda Ash in Magadi which has been shipped away unprocessed for decades thus denying Kenya huge revenues."
The benchmarking visit comes about four months after President William Ruto hosted a delegation of Indonesian ministers at State House Nairobi.
The delegation which was led by General (Rtd) Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan discussed areas of cooperation in different sectors, including; trade, mining and energy and defence and security.
General Pandjaitan is Indonesia's Coordinating Minister of Maritime and Investment Affairs.
In October 2022, Ruto also met with Indonesia's House of Representatives speaker Puan Maharani, at State House, Nairobi.
