In this photo released by Indonesian Presidential Palace, from left to right; Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Indonesian President Joko Widodo, Lao's Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith and Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, attend a leaders' meeting at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, April 24, 2021. South-East Asian leaders met Myanmar's top general and coup leader in an emergency summit in Indonesia Saturday, and are expected to press calls for an end to violence by security forces that has left hundreds of protesters dead as well as the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and other political detainees. - AP
JAKARTA, April 24 (Reuters): Indonesian president Joko Widodo called for the creation of an Asean special envoy to Myanmar to engage with all parties in the crisis-torn country during a gathering of South-East Asian leaders in Jakarta on Saturday.
The president, who is commonly known as Jokowi, said the leaders had reached a consensus on Myanmar that would be announced by the Association of South-East Asian Nations secretary general.
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