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With US President Barack Obama and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono both facing challenges to create jobs and raise people’s welfare at home, the meeting between them will end in deals to maximize economic gain, experts say.

Obama has said that he would double the US’s exports to Asia, especially to the prosperous East Asia, while Yudhoyono told a gathering of Indonesian envoys last week that a priority of Indonesian foreign policy was to bring economic benefit and investment back home.“It’s all about economic gains. The US will make Indonesia a market for its products,” Alexius Jemadu, the dean of University of Pelita Harapan’s School of Social and Political Sciences, said Sunday.

Golkar Party legislator Tantowi Yahya agreed that Obama’s visit would mainly address how both countries could maximize economic gain in their bilateral relations. “We have to take advantage of Obama’s connection to Indonesia,” he said.

Alexius said that apart from rivaling China in gaining political influence in its strengthening presence in Asia, the US also wanted a piece of the economic benefits in the region.

He said Indonesia should use its potential as a huge market for US products as a bargaining chip when negotiating a strategic partnership with the US.“The recent US anger of our regulation to restrict film imports shows the country’s goals. They want to protect their movie industry,” Alexius said.

Deputy US Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis raised the issue with senior Indonesian officials last week, just over a month ahead of a planned visit by Obama, the US embassy said.“If implemented, the ministry of culture and tourism decree will disrupt bilateral trade in movies at a time when we have been working hard to improve the bilateral relationship,” he said in a statement.“The decree will severely restrict the availability of foreign films in Indonesia, harming stakeholders including Indonesian cinemas that want to display foreign movies and Indonesian patrons that want to watch them.”

The dispute centers on Indonesia’s plans to ensure that all movies shown in the archipelago are replicated by Indonesian firms.“The only beneficiaries would appear to be the one or two replicating firms being granted an oligopoly on the replication of films in Indonesia,” Marantis said.

His statement went on to say the proposed regulations would have the effect of imposing “sweeping new restrictions on imports of US films into Indonesia”.

Trade representative spokeswoman Carol Guthrie added, “We have asked that Indonesia remove the decree.”“If companies want to replicate elsewhere and then export to Indonesia, they should have the flexibility to do so.”

International law professor Hikmahanto Juwana from the University of Indonesia said the ministry had to coordinate with other institutions, especially the Trade Ministry and the Business Competition Supervisory Agency (KPPU), to avoid negative impacts from the regulation.

“The Trade Ministry is the focal point in WTO negotiation, and they know if it creates discrimination, while KPPU can assess if the regulation will create a monopoly, as feared by the US,” he said.