JAKARTA: President Joko Widodo yesterday said he had forgiven Malaysia over the upside down flag of Indonesia printed in a souvenir booklet for the KL2017 SEA Games.
The president’s special communications staff, Johan Budi Saptopribowo, said the president was just waiting for an apology from Malaysia soon after the issue cropped up.
Online media quoted Johan as saying that the Indonesian president, better known as Jokowi, also hoped the Indonesian people would not react excessively to the mistake by the Malaysian SEA Games Organising Committee.
“What’s important now is that there has been an apology and (the booklet) has been withdrawn, as hoped by the president, and Malaysia apologised,” he said at the Presidential Palace complex, here.
Malaysia, via Foreign Minister Anifah Aman, two days ago, made an official apology to the Indonesian government and all the people of Indonesia over the mistake.