INDONESIA: Chinese President Xi Jinping lays wreath at Indonesia's hero cemetery in Jakarta

Record ID: 863255

  • Title: INDONESIA: Chinese President Xi Jinping lays wreath at Indonesia's hero cemetery in Jakarta
  • Date: 3rd October 2013
  • Summary: JAKARTA, INDONESIA (OCTOBER 3, 2013) (REUTERS) CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING AND HIS WIFE, PENG LIYUAN, WITH DELEGATION PAYING THEIR RESPECT IN KALIBATA NATIONAL HEROES CEMETERY XI BOWING HIS HEAD CHINESE DELEGATION PENG BOWING HER HEAD SOLDIERS MARCHING BAND
  • Embargoed: 18th October 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Indonesia
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  • Country: Indonesia
  • Topics: Politics
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  • Story Text: Chinese President Xi Jinping laid a wreath at Kalibata National Heroes Cemetery on Thursday (October 3) as part of his agenda during his two-day visit to the country.
    Xi, along with his wife, Peng Liyuan and delegations spent more than 30 minutes paying their respects to Indonesia's national heroes.
    Xi arrived in Jakarta on a state visit on Wednesday (October 2). This is his first official visit to Southeast Asia's biggest economy and the world's third most populous country.
    He will oversee the signing of a range of contracts, several of them focused on tapping the huge Indonesian resource sector to help feed the Chinese economy.
    Trade between China and Indonesia stood at nearly $33 billion for the first eight months of 2013, making it Indonesia's second-biggest trading partner, after Japan.
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