Switzerland has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Indonesia that will facilitate access to critical minerals and metals. In return, Switzerland has committed to promote investment in Indonesia. This Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is of great importance to the tech industry, “as it depends on the availability of numerous raw materials”, Swissmem, the umbrella organisation for the machinery and technology industry, explained in a press release on Tuesday. According to the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), the MoU was due to be signed by the Swiss President, Guy Parmelin, and the Indonesian Minister for Investment and Downstreaming, Rosan Roeslani, during Swissmem’s Industry Day in Basel. Due to Roeslani’s last-minute absence, the document was “symbolically signed by Ambassador Andrea Rauber Saxer, who heads the Division for Bilateral Economic Relations at SECO, and the Indonesian Ambassador, Ngurah Swajaya,” a SECO spokesperson told the AWP news agency. The …