Putin Offers Russian Railways Investment in New Indonesia Capital
Vladimir Putin, right, shake hands with Joko Widodo in Moscow on June 30.
Photographer: Pavel Bednyakov/AFP/Getty Images
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President Vladimir Putin offered to have Russian Railways invest in Indonesia’s new capital, in a sign of warming ties with Southeast Asia’s biggest economy as the US and its allies seek to isolate Moscow.
Putin said Moscow could take part in President Joko Widodo’s plan to move Indonesia’s capital to the island of Kalimantan from Jakarta, according to a statement by the Russian Embassy in the country. He made the comments during Jokowi’s visit to Moscow on Thursday, it said.