Visit to Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand will further strengthen India's Act East Policy: PM
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- Narendra Modi will travel to Indonesia (July 6-8), Melbourne, and Auckland from July 6-11, 2026, telling reporters the tour will 'further strengthen India's Act East Policy, MAHASAGAR Vision as well as our outlook towards a free and open Indo-Pacific.'
- The Indonesia leg is at President Prabowo Subianto's invitation and marks Modi's first bilateral visit since the two countries elevated ties to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership during his 2018 trip; Modi will visit the Prambanan Temple complex at Yogyakarta with Prabowo and meet the Indian diaspora.
- In Melbourne, Modi will meet Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to advance the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership across defence and security, trade and investment, education and mobility, emerging and critical technologies, and sports science.
- The Auckland stop, at Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's invitation, follows Luxon's March 2025 visit to India and the recently signed bilateral Free Trade Agreement, with Modi saying he would address a 'large gathering' of the Indian community.
- MAHASAGAR — Mutual and Holistic Advancement for Security Across the Regions — is being deployed alongside the Act East Policy as India's framework for regional security and growth across all three destinations.
- The Indonesia visit reciprocates Prabowo's January 2025 state visit to India, where he was chief guest at Republic Day celebrations, underscoring a civilizational-ties framing Modi repeated in his departure statement.
Why it matters: This tour packages three distinct bilateral tracks — Indonesia's Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, Australia's defense-tech cooperation, and New Zealand's newly signed FTA — under the MAHASAGAR security umbrella. For each capital, Modi locks in concrete deliverables: tech and sports-science talks with Albanese, FTA implementation momentum with Luxon, and civilizational and diaspora outreach with Prabowo.
