Malaysian King Grants Audience to Indonesian President

KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 (Bernama) -- Malaysian King  Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah today granted audience to Indonesian President Joko Widodo at Istana Negara (National Palace) Thursday.

Joko Widodo or better known as Jokowi and his wife Iriana Joko Widodo arrived at 3.35 pm to attend an evening reception with His Majesty and spent about an hour at Istana Negara.

Also present were the Queen Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah and the Regent of Malaysia’s Pahang statae Tengku Hassanal Ibrahim Alam Shah Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah.

Also attending the reception were Foreign Minister Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir and Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi.

Earlier, Jokowi held a meeting with Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim at Seri Perdana in Malaysia’s federal administrative capital, Putrajaya and witnessed the exchange of several agreements signed by representatives of relevant ministries and agencies from both countries and visited areas around the administrative centre.

Jokowi is scheduled to leave for Indonesia Thursday afternoon after a two-day working visit at Anwar's invitation following the Prime Minister's official visit to the republic in January.

The Indonesian President made an official visit to Malaysia in August 2019, after being reappointed for a second term in the republic’s Presidential Election on April 17, 2019.

In 2022, Indonesia was Malaysia's sixth largest trading partner and ASEAN's second largest with a trade volume of RM130.14 billion (US$29.55 billion), which was an increase of 36.5 per cent compared to RM95.31 billion (US$22.98 billion) in the previous year.

The last time the King held a state visit to Indonesia was on August 26 to 29 2019, which was Al-Sultan Abdullah's maiden visit to the republic upon his installation as the 16th Malaysia’s King on July 30 in the same year.

-- BERNAMA