Joko to step into seas row

Amicable: Joko shaking hands with Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida after their meeting in Jakarta. - AFP

TOKYO: Indonesia’s president-elect Joko Widodo said his country was ready to act as an intermediary to calm rising tensions over territorial disputes in the South China Sea, according to a published interview

The Jakarta governor, who won a resounding electoral victory last month, told Japan’s Asahi newspaper that he would work toward finding diplomatic – not military – solutions to the simmering conflicts.