Indonesia Reaches "One-Sided" Tariff Deal With U.S.

President Donald Trump has announced that the United States has reached a trade agreement with Indonesia, following what Jakarta described as an “extraordinary struggle.”

President Prabowo Subianto negotiated the deal directly with Trump by phone. I Photo: Prabowo Subianto Facebook

Under the deal, the U.S. will impose a 19% tariff on Indonesian exports—reduced from the 32% Trump initially threatened—according to Elisabeth Buchwald and Bryan Mena of CNN.

Trump first revealed the agreement on Truth Social, later telling reporters that Indonesia agreed to eliminate all tariffs on American exports.

He also said Jakarta committed to purchasing “$15 billion in U.S. energy, $4.5 billion in American agricultural products, and 50 Boeing jets—many of them 777s.”

Indonesia’s government confirmed the deal, noting that President Prabowo Subianto negotiated it directly with Trump by phone.

“This is an extraordinary struggle by our negotiating team, led by the Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs,” said Hasan Nasbi, a spokesperson for the Indonesian president, in a statement to Reuters.

In an Instagram post, President Prabowo wrote that the two nations had “agreed and concluded to take trade relations between Indonesia and the United States into a new era of mutual benefit between our two great nations.”