Prabowo Returns to Russia to Meet Putin, Foreign Minister: Very Strategic for the Nation
President Prabowo Subianto is scheduled to return to Moscow, Russia, this week, to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Foreign Minister Sugiono, who will accompany President Prabowo to Moscow, explained that this visit is strategic for the benefit of the Indonesian nation.
“This is something that is very strategic for the Indonesian nation. He will meet with President Putin,” Foreign Minister Sugiono said in response to reporters’ questions after the opening event of the PB IPSI National Consultation in Jakarta on Saturday.
However, Sugiono did not specify the exact date of the President’s departure, whether this Saturday evening or Sunday (12/4).
On the same occasion, Sugiono explained that in the meeting with President Putin, President Prabowo will discuss current geopolitical issues, as well as energy-related matters.
“That definitely talks about the energy situation,” Sugiono said.
President Prabowo’s visit to Russia will be the third time after the President’s second visit to Moscow on December 10, 2025, and the first visit to Saint Petersburg on June 18–20, 2025.
President Prabowo, while still president-elect, also met President Putin in Moscow in July 2024. In the President’s first and second visits, cooperation between the two countries in the energy sector has been in the spotlight.
Indonesia and Russia agreed at the time to cooperate in the field of new and renewable energy, as well as the development of nuclear technology.
President Putin expressed his country’s readiness to cooperate with Indonesia in the field of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
In recent months, especially after war broke out in the Gulf and a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz that disrupted world crude oil distribution, President Prabowo visited several countries, namely Japan and South Korea, in anticipation of the threat of a global oil crisis hitting Indonesia.
“It is said that Prabowo travels abroad, enjoys traveling abroad. Brothers, in order to secure the oil, I have to go everywhere,” President Prabowo said during a Government Working Meeting at the Palace in Jakarta on Wednesday (8/4).
The president stressed that in the midst of the turbulent global geopolitical situation, the government needs to actively establish communication and cooperation with various countries in order to maintain the stability of the national economy, especially the energy sector.
In the same meeting, the President declared himself to be returning abroad to carry out a similar mission.
“I want to go to a country again. Later as soon as I leave, you know where to go. Secure (oil) as well,” President Prabowo said, signalling his agenda to Russia during a meeting with ministers and top-level officials.