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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Kate Lamb and Ananda Teresia

Indonesia quietly engaging key stakeholders in Myanmar crisis - foreign minister

FILE PHOTO: Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi speaks during a joint commission meeting between South Korea and Indonesia at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, March 31, 2023. Lee Jin-man/Pool via REUTERS

Indonesia has for months been quietly engaging key stakeholders in Myanmar's conflict, as well as neighbours India, Thailand and China in an effort to kick-start a peace process as violence intensifies, its foreign minister said on Friday.

Retno Marsudi earlier told Reuters exclusively that Indonesia, as chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), had launched a quiet effort to make a breakthrough in the crisis, with its diplomats having held more than 60 "engagements" with all parties involved.

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