President Jokowi Takes 12-Hour Train To Ukraine From Poland For Peace Mission

President Joko Widodo (center) and First Lady Iriana Joko Widodo (right) arrived in Rzeszow, Poland, on Tuesday afternoon and were greeted by the Indonesian Ambassador/via ANTARA

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) will travel to Ukraine after attending the G7 Summit in Germany. However, the former governor of DKI Jakarta had to travel for 12 hours by train from Poland.

"Bismillah, President Jokowi is on his way to Poland by plane and after that directly to Ukraine by train for 12 hours", Cabinet Secretary, Pramono Anung, said through his Instagram account, @pramonoanungw, quoted on Tuesday, June 28.

Pramono uploaded a photo of himself with President Jokowi. Seen, President Jokowi, who is wearing a gray suit, seems to be talking to him on the plane.

As for the trip abroad, Jokowi is scheduled to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and President Vladimir Putin. This meeting, continued Pramono, brought its own mission.

"President Jokowi will meet with President Zelenskyy and President Putin to carry out a peace mission", he said.

During the trip, continued Pramono, President Jokowi always paid attention to the participating groups.

"President Jokowi always checks every activity in detail, including trips to Ukraine and Russia in a very limited group", said Pramono.

As previously reported, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said President Jokowi would be scheduled to meet the leaders of each country, namely Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow with an estimated meeting time of June 29-30 2022.

Before leaving to start his foreign tour on June 26, 2022, the President in a press conference at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Tangerang, Banten, conveyed his mission to Ukraine and Russia is to build dialogue, stop the war, and build peace.

"After Germany, I will visit Ukraine and will meet with President Zelensky. His mission is to invite the President of Ukraine, President Zelensky, to open a space for dialogue in the context of peace", said President Jokowi.

The meeting with President Zelensky, the President said, was to encourage the establishment of peace between Ukraine and Russia because they had to stop the war, and the food commodity supply chain had to be reactivated.

The president will carry out a similar mission in his meeting with Putin, both open a space for peace dialogue, push for a ceasefire as soon as possible, and to ending the war.

After Russia, the President will visit the United Arab Emirates to resume discussions on economic cooperation and investment.