Mari Pangestu, Indonesia President's Special Advisor for International Trade says Indonesia will continue to negotiate with the U.S. on the details of the trade agreement and stresses that deregulation and reforms are key to Indonesia's response to the uncertainty in the world these days.

Indonesia sees securing a 19% tariff rate with the US as a “huge win” for some of the Southeast Asian nation’s most labor-intensive sectors such as garments and footwear, a government adviser said Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Trade Minister Budi Santoso said that some U.S. goods have had a zero percent tariff all this time. "The tariffs for wheat and soybeans are already zero percent, and we don't produce them, so we need to import them," he said.

A group of U.S. solar panel manufacturers asked the Commerce Department on Thursday to impose tariffs on imports from Indonesia, India and Laos, accusing companies there of dumping cheap goods in the market to undercut new American factories.

Indonesia’s president confirmed he struck a tariff deal with the US after direct negotiations with President Donald Trump accelerated months of talks between officials of both countries.