Xi and Putin to attend G-20 summit in Indonesia: Jokowi

Indonesian President Joko Widodo confirmed that Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) and Russian leader Vladimir Putin were planning to attend the November summit. - Reuters/AFP

JAKARTA (Bloomberg): Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are both planning to attend a Group of 20 summit in the resort island of Bali later this year, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said.

"Xi Jinping will come. President Putin has also told me he will come,” Jokowi, as the president is known, said in an interview with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait on Thursday (Aug 18).