PM Modi to Visit Indonesia Today for ASEAN-India Summit

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take a trip to Indonesia on Wednesday to attend the 20th ASEAN-India Summit and the 18th East Asia Summit (EAS).

He will leave for Indonesia on Wednesday evening and will return to New Delhi late in the evening on Thursday.

The Prime Minister will be in Jakarta at the invitation of the President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo. Both the ASEAN-India Summit and the 18th East Asia Summit (EAS) will take place on September 7 (Thursday). The theme of this summit is “ASEAN Matters: Epicentrum of Growth.”

The foreign ministry said that the the Summit will review the progress of India-ASEAN relations and chart the future direction of cooperation. In August, ASEAN-India Economic Ministers met in Indonesia.

A joint committee agreed to a regular, quarterly schedule of negotiations, which would conclude the review of the ASEAN-India FTA in 2025.