 In November 2013, the EU’s high representative for foreign and security policy Catherine Ashton made her first-ever official visit to Indonesia which was hailed as a long-awaited breakthrough in the EU’s relationship with Indonesia.The EU and Indonesia have built robust commercial relations, with bilateral trade amounting to approximately €25 billion in 2012 resulting in a sizeable €5.7 billion trade surplus for Indonesia with the EU.In the past few years trade between EU and Indonesia has been marked by an upward trend.