On 7 July 2016, Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade Albert Karimov took part in the meeting between Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Indonesia to the Russian Federation Mohammad Wahid Supriyadi. The meeting was held at the Governor`s House in the Kazan Kremlin.
The Tatarstan President thanked the attendees for their proposals. He gave a suggestion to create a working group to study the issues of the participation in exhibitions and forums and gave a task to elaborate an issue of the town twinning of Kazan and Indonesian city Acheh. Rustam Minnikhanov also said that Tatarstan would take part in the Indonesian Festival in Moscow on 21-22 August 2016.