Jakarta Globe, Basten Gokkon, October 27, 2015
Jakarta.
President Joko Widodo has decided to cut short his first official visit to the
United States as a forest fire crisis blazes out of control back home.
“The
president has received recent updates from the minister for politics, legal and
security affairs minister regarding the haze that has affected more Indonesian
people,” Arrmanatha Nasir, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, told the
Jakarta Globe late on Monday.
He said
Joko and part of his delegation would immediately return home on Tuesday after
attending scheduled events in Washington, D.C., where the president met with
President Barack Obama, congressmen and US executives on Monday.
Joko’s
return means he will not attend much-anticipated meetings with technology
executives from Apple, Google and Microsoft, among others. Representing him in
Silicon Valley instead, Arrmanatha said, will be the communications and trade
ministers, as well as the head of the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM).
Arrmanatha
said the president would fly to either South Sumatra or Central Kalimantan once
he arrives back in the country. Both provinces are among the hardest hit by
forest fires generating intense volumes of health-threatening haze.
A top
legislator earlier on Monday lashed out at the president for going abroad just
as the fire and haze crisis worsens. Up to three-quarters of Indonesia is
affected to varying degrees by the haze.
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