EVERY time Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan travels overseas, Thomas Trikasih Lembong is nearby. The former trade minister, for instance, accompanied Anies when he met with Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey and German Ministry of Foreign Affairs official, Petra Sigmund, in Berlin in the second week of May.

When Anies met with Danone International executives in Paris and British Secretary of State for International Trade Anne-Marie Trevelyan in London