Indonesia’s President-elect Prabowo will visit Japan on April 2-3, Japan says

Indonesia’s president-elect Prabowo Subianto on Wednesday told Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida he wanted deeper security and economic cooperation just two days after telling Chinese President Xi Jinping he wished for close ties.
Prabowo told Kishida at a meeting in Tokyo, “We have built a cooperative relationship and going forward I would like to strengthen that.”
Prabowo, who has previously said the world’s fourth most populous nation was committed to a policy of non-alignment, visited Japan after travelling to China on Monday on his first foreign trip since his winning Indonesia’s presidential election in February.
Both Tokyo and Beijing are courting the Southeast Asian nations that ring the contested South China Sea, most of which China claims, to gain influence in the strategic region.
The current defence minister and former special forces commander will be sworn in by President Joko Widodo in October.