About three weeks before Indian and Indonesian leaders sat down for talks in Jakarta, Indonesian experts had explained to their Indian counterparts that New Delhi’s quest to join the Malacca Strait Patrol (MSP) was “not feasible”, according to The Wire. Indonesian President Joko Widodo met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday to discuss, among other issues, developing infrastructure and an economic zone at Sabang, on the tip of Sumatra island and at the mouth of the Malacca Strait. Widodo said both leaders had reached an agreement to advance maritime cooperation, particularly in the context of the Indo-Pacific strategy, referring to an emerging alliance between India, the United States, Australia and Japan that some say is a means to contain China.