Easy does it: Jokowi (right) assisting Salman during a meeting at the presidential palace in Bogor. — AFP
Bogor: Cheering crowds welcomed King Salman as he began the first visit by a Saudi monarch to Indonesia for almost 50 years, seeking stronger economic ties with the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country.
The king – who is accompanied by about 1,000 people travelling on several aircraft, including princes and ministers – disembarked from his plane using an escalator as he arrived at an airport in Jakarta, his latest stop on an Asian tour.
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