Australian PM Turnbull plans first Jakarta visit this month

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Australian PM Turnbull plans first Jakarta visit this month



JAKARTA: -- Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will make an official visit to Jakarta this month on his first overseas visit since toppling unpopular former leader Tony Abbott, according to The Jakarta Globe.

The visit, tipped for Nov 12, will be the first from an Australian Prime Minister after the execution of Australian drug convicts Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran in April. Relations between the neighboring countries grew tense in the lead up to the Central Java executions, with demonstrations in both countries.

Abbott inflamed anti-drug protesters in Indonesia after linking the then impending executions to Australian aid in the wake of the 2004 tsunami in Aceh, in an effort to gain the two convicts a reprieve.

The Australian ambassador to Indonesia, Paul Grigson, was recalled immediately after the April 29 executions, although Indonesian foreign ministry sources maintain no official notification was submitted. Grigson was back in Jakarta in the first week of June.

Both Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi and her Australian counterpart, Julie Bishop, have repeatedly stated that relations have since returned to “normal.”

Turnbull will meet with President Joko Widodo to “discuss Australia-Indonesia bilateral cooperation, with a particular focus on trade and economic ties and common regional challenges,” the Prime Minister’s office said.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/australian-pm-turnbull-plans-first-jakarta-visit-this-month


-- Thai PBS 2015-11-03

[steven100]

so he's going to visit Woki Adodo or whatever his name is ................

he might wanna mention to Woki that it's illegal for security personnel to accept bribes from people smugglers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!