JAKARTA: Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto will depart for Russia on Sunday (Apr 12) for talks with counterpart Vladimir Putin on oil, Prabowo’s workplace mentioned.
The presidency in Jakarta confirmed to AFP that Prabowo would go away on Sunday night.
International Minister Sugiono mentioned on Saturday that oil, which is “of strategic significance for the Indonesian nation”, can be on the agenda.
“He’ll meet with President Putin and also will focus on world geopolitics and, actually, the power scenario,” mentioned Sugiono, who like many Indonesians has just one identify.
Prabowo, who just lately travelled to South Korea and Japan, has defended his overseas travels.
“Brothers and sisters, it is to safe oil, I’ve to go all over the place,” he mentioned in an handle to his cupboard final week.
Like many countries, Indonesia has come underneath stress from hovering world oil costs over the struggle within the Center East.
Southeast Asia’s largest financial system, the place gas is closely subsidised, is an oil producer however nonetheless a web importer.
Final month, Prabowo’s authorities introduced gas rationing and mandated a day-per-week work-from-home coverage for civil servants to preserve power shares.
