Taking stock of Indonesia–Algeria cooperation in 2025

Just days before the end of 2025, Indonesia registered a new development in its relationship with Algeria when Pertamina Internasional EP, a unit of Indonesia’s state oil company, shipped one million barrels of Algerian crude to Jakarta from the Port of Arzew. Completed on 24 December, the delivery was the first lifting under a newly extended production-sharing contract that allows Indonesian operations in Algeria to continue for the next 25 years. The shipment took place against a backdrop of gradually expanding engagement between Southeast Asia’s largest democracy and North Africa’s most populous country. The transaction followed a year in which interaction between the two countries became more frequent and structured, spanning energy cooperation, institutional exchanges, and trade promotion. While Indonesia–Algeria […]