Australian PM Anthony Albanese, President Joko Widodo Meet at Bogor Palace
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6 June 2022 12:44 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - President Joko Widodo, or Jokowi, on Monday, met with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the Bogor Presidential Palace in West Java. This marks Anthony’s first prime ministerial visit to Indonesia after his inauguration on May 23.
He was welcomed with a full welcoming ceremony by the Indonesian presidential office.
The Australian PM previously said to Reuters on Sunday that the visit asserts the importance of the bilateral relationship between Indonesia and Australia.
"This early visit with a very high-level delegation from Australia indicates to our Indonesian friends the importance we place on that relationship," Albanese told reporters in Perth.
The trip comes as Australia's new Labor government, which ended almost a decade of conservative rule in a May 21 election, puts greater focus on relations with Southeast Asia, and climate change.
The Indonesia visit will mark Albanese's second overseas trip since becoming prime minister after he attended a meeting of leaders of the Quad group of countries in Tokyo in late May.
FAJAR PEBRIANTO | REUTERS
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