JAKARTA/NEW YORK -- Indonesia demonstrated its balanced foreign policy on Monday as President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo hosted U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and top Russian security official Nikolai Patrushev in back-to-back meetings.
Widodo received Blinken at the presidential palace in Jakarta immediately after the secretary's arrival Monday afternoon. Blinken's visit -- the first leg of his maiden Southeast Asia tour this week, which includes stops in Malaysia and Thailand -- is widely seen as signaling Washington's greater outreach to a region where China has been wielding power.
