US Secretary of State Pompeo’s visit seemed more like a farewell


No simple courtesy call: Pompeo and Jokowi greeting each other at the presidential palace in Bogor, on the outskirts of Jakarta. — AFP

AS a Javanese man who was raised in the central Java city of Surakarta, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo would have pretended he did not know that the United States election was only a few days away when he hosted US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last Wednesday.

Less than week after his arrival in Jakarta, Pompeo may just turn into a lame duck foreign minister along with his boss President Donald Trump.

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