BEIJING’S eloquent Ambassador to Jakarta, Zhang Qiyue, seems to have won over once-skeptical members of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (Kadin) on the benefits of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).

At a lunch meeting attended by Industry Minister Muhammad Hidayat, a former Kadin Chairman himself, Zhang pointed out the trade and investment benefits Indonesia would accrue from CAFTA. “Indonesia is the only country i