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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Kate Lamb, Gayatri Suroyo and Ananda Teresia

Exclusive-Indonesia to send general to Myanmar to highlight transition, president says

Indonesian President Joko Widodo poses for pictures at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, February 1, 2023. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

Indonesia plans to send a top general to Myanmar to talk to its junta leaders in the hope of showing Myanmar's military rulers how Indonesia made a successful transition to democracy, President Joko Widodo said on Wednesday.

Southeast Asian biggest economy takes on the chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) this year and with it the responsibility of trying to resolve the region's perennial problem of the suppression of democracy in fellow member Myanmar.

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