Myanmar’s top general meets regional leaders at Indonesia summit

Myanmar’s Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, left, is greeted by an unidentified Indonesian officials upon arrival at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang (Rusman/Indonesia Presidential Palace/AP)

Southeast Asian leaders met Myanmar’s top general and coup leader in an emergency summit in Indonesia, and are expected to press calls for an end to violence by security forces that has left hundreds of protesters dead as well as the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and other political detainees.

There is little hope for an immediate breakthrough in the two-hour gathering in Jakarta between Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and the six heads of state and three foreign ministers representing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.