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When President Xi Jinping entered the front lawn of the parliament building in Jakarta on Oct 3, 2013, Marzuki Alie, then speaker of Indonesia's House of Representatives, greeted him in Mandarin, saying "huanying", or welcome.

Xi, during his first Southeast Asia visit as China's top leader, had been invited to address members of Indonesia's House of Representatives, the People's Consultative Assembly and the Regional Representatives Council in a joint session that Marzuki had personally arranged.

"President Xi Jinping was the first foreign president to address the Indonesian parliament," Marzuki told China Daily.