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Indonesia–Kenya relations refers to the bilateral relations of Republic of Indonesia and Kenya. Indonesia has an embassy in Nairobi, also accredited to Mauritius, Seychelles, and Uganda, while Kenya did not establishes embassy in Indonesia yet, diplomatic relations with Indonesia is accredited to its embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Both nations are partners in multilateral organizations, such as the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Non-Aligned Movement.
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History
The official bilateral diplomatic relations between Indonesia and Kenya was established in July 1979. During that times the diplomatic affairs to Kenya was accredited to Indonesian embassy in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Indonesian embassy in Nairobi officially established on April 1982.
Indonesian and Kenyan foreign ministers have signed memorandum of understanding on 19 June 2008 in Nairobi, to establishes Joint Commission of Indonesia and Kenya. The commission serves as a forum to expands and improves cooperation sectors, also to solves bilateral problems. During their first meeting in Jakarta, 2–4 December 2008, the commission agreed to expands the cooperation in several sectors, such as economy, trade, social and culture, and technical cooperation. To improve people-to-people contact the commission has agreed on several cooperation possibilities, such as diplomats training, anti-terrorism drill, and athletics training.
Trade
For most of the years, the bilateral trade balances between Indonesia and Kenya are in favour to Indonesia, recording US $ 235.4 million surplus in 2009. Indonesia mainly sells crude palm oil, furniture, machinery, transport equipment, textiles and apparels with export worth US $ 242.7 million to Kenya. While Kenya's sells black tea, sisal fibre, tobacco and cut flowers to Indonesia with value US $ 7.32 million.