Indonesian president-elect visits China after decade of close ties

Indonesia’s President-elect Prabowo Subianto is expected to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Monday for high-level talks, less than two
months after winning the race to lead Southeast Asia’s biggest economy.
Prabowo is visiting at Xi’s invitation to discuss two-way ties, even though the 72-year-old political veteran will only be sworn in as the next leader of Southeast Asia’s most populous nation in October.
China becomes the first foreign nation Prabowo has visited as president-elect, ahead of Indonesia’s neighbours in the region, underlining the close partnership built up in the past decade under his predecessor, Joko Widodo.
In contrast, Jokowi, as the incumbent Indonesian leader is also known, did not travel abroad as president-elect before being sworn in.