Friendly rivals: Joko (right) talking with Prabowo during their meeting on a subway in Jakarta. — Reuters
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s president and his defeated election rival met for the first time since the divisive April poll and rode together on a recently opened subway in the capital, signalling a calming of political tensions in the world’s third-largest democracy.
In a choreographed spectacle, President Joko Widodo and former special forces general Prabowo Subianto met and embraced yesterday at a gleaming new subway station in Jakarta and sat together chatting on a short train trip.
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