President Jokowi Will Be A Talker At The BRICS Summit

President Joko Widodo took a selfie with dozens of Indonesian citizens who welcomed his arrival in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Wednesday (23/8/2023). (ANTARA/HO-KBRI Pretoria)

JAKARTA - Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) will be a speaker at the BRICS Summit (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) in Johannesburg, South Africa (Afsel). “ Mr. President will be speakers at the BRICS Summit. The President spoke as President of the Republic of Indonesia and also in his capacity as Chair of ASEAN,” said Deputy for Protocol, Press and Media, Presidential Secretariat Bey Machmudin in a short message received in Jakarta, Antara, Thursday, August 24. The BRICS Alliance currently includes a quarter of the global economy and is home to more than 40 percent of the world's population. At the summit which took place from August 22, 2023 to August 24, 2023, a number of heads of state were also present, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Daya da Silva, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin was represented by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. According to information from the Indonesian Embassy in Pretoria, in addition to attending the BRCIS Summit, President Jokowi is also planned to attend a bilateral meeting with the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Africa. President Jokowi arrived in Johannesburg on Wednesday and was greeted by a number of top officials in South Africa and Indonesia's Extraordinary and Plenipotent Ambassador to South Africa, concurrently Botswana, Eswatini, and Lesotho, Saud Purwanto Krisnawan. The visit was the first for the President of the Republic of Indonesia to South Africa. Jokowi arrived in South Africa with a lively welcome given by around 80 Indonesian citizens who came from various cities in South Africa such as Pretoria, Johannesburg, Cape Town, even from neighboring countries, Eswatini. The rendang of the song “Indonesia Pusaka "by Ismail Marzuki by the Indonesian citizen group accompanied the President of the Republic of Indonesia and his entourage into the courtyard of the Pallazo Hotel Johannesburg. The euphoria of Indonesian citizens looked very high, especially when the Head of State stepped closer to the Indonesian citizen group while greeting and greeting and serving the request of Indonesian citizens to take selfies together.