KUALA LUMPUR: Indonesian President Joko Widodo today shared his excitement at being chauffeured around Putrajaya by Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad during his two-day visit to Malaysia, recently.
On Friday, Dr Mahathir drove Joko, popularly known as Jokowi, in a Proton Persona to a luncheon he hosted at Seri Perdana, the Prime Minister’s official residence.
“Tun Mahathir is indeed an energetic and hard-working senior leader. He doesn’t just steer the nation, he steers the car himself. And he can go very fast, too.
“This is the second time I have been in a car driven by Tun Mahathir,” Jokowi said in his tweet, which accompanied a video he posted on his official Twitter account on Saturday, Aug 11.
The red Persona, bearing the registration number B 2367 A, was tailed by other vehicles carrying members of the Indonesian entourage.
In Feb 2015, Dr Mahathir had taken Jokowi on a test drive in a Proton car at the Sepang race circuit. – Bernama