JAKARTA: Jakarta and Manila have agreed to help each other to resolve a number of issues, ranging from the repatriation of Indonesian pilgrims posing as Filipinos in Saudi Arabia to the fate of the Indonesian hostages currently in the hands of Abu Sayyaf militants in the southern Philippines.
On his first visit to Indonesia, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte took the opportunity to apologise for the recent kidnappings of Indonesian sailors by armed militants operating in Philippine waters.
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