# Modi visits Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand in July in first Indian PM trip to Auckland in four decades > India's prime minister departs July 6 on a three-nation Indo-Pacific swing covering Jakarta, Melbourne and Auckland; the New Zealand leg is the first state visit by any Indian PM to the country since 1986 **Meta:** type: event · date: 2026-07-04 · heads: 长远之局, 谁说了算 · 7 takes · 2 lenses · 3 regions ## Summary India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi departs July 6 on a three-leg Indo-Pacific sweep through Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand, the most geographically ambitious Act East visit since the Quad framework was elevated to leader-level summits. In Jakarta (July 6-8), Modi will co-chair the India-Indonesia Joint Commission with President [Prabowo Subianto](/zh/entity/person/prabowo-subianto) and visit the Prambanan temple complex. In Melbourne (July 8-10), he co-leads the India-Australia CEOs Forum alongside Prime Minister [Anthony Albanese](/zh/entity/person/anthony-albanese) and holds a bilateral summit reviewing defence and supply-chain resilience. The Auckland stop (July 10-11), at the invitation of Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, is the first state visit by an Indian prime minister to New Zealand since Rajiv Gandhi's trip in 1986. The itinerary is presented as India's BRICS chairmanship diplomacy and its Quad posture running in parallel: Modi meets America's closest military partners while also signalling India's value as a non-Western anchor for the Indo-Pacific region. The Indonesia leg carries particular weight: [India](/zh/entity/india) and [Indonesia](/zh/entity/indonesia) elevated ties to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in May 2018, and the Prabowo government has sought to deepen defence-industrial co-operation with multiple major partners simultaneously as a hedge against US-China bifurcation. India and Indonesia are negotiating a preferential trade agreement that the two foreign ministries are keen to advance before the bilateral summit. ## The split Indian strategic media frames the tour primarily through the Quad lens: with [Australia](/zh/entity/australia) and Indonesia both now inside interlocking US-led security arrangements, Modi's circuit signals India's centrality. Indonesian analysts read it differently, with Jakarta wanting investment in the Nusantara capital megaproject and supply-chain deals in nickel and critical minerals, not a formal security alignment. New Zealand's perspective is economic: Wellington has a long-standing FTA with India in negotiation, and Luxon's government views the visit as a chance to close critical-minerals and education agreements. The Chinese foreign ministry has not commented on the visit but state media has described the itinerary as "part of Washington's Indo-Pacific containment architecture." ## By the numbers - 40, years since the last Indian PM state visit to New Zealand (Rajiv Gandhi, 1986) - 4th, the number of times Modi has visited Indonesia (previous three as prime minister) - 270m+, the combined population of Australia, Indonesia and New Zealand as counterparts on this trip - 1st, the ranking of India-Indonesia bilateral trade partnership India seeks to advance toward, targeting US$50 billion by 2030 ## Why it matters The visit tracks [India](/zh/entity/india)'s strategy of keeping one foot in each multipolar camp: deep ties with the Quad powers while maintaining Global South leadership and non-alignment on US-China competition. Indonesia's simultaneous deepening with China on infrastructure and with India on defence makes [Prabowo Subianto](/zh/entity/person/prabowo-subianto)'s bilateral a test of strategic ambiguity at scale. The New Zealand element completes India's coverage of all five [The Quad](/zh/entity/the-quad) partner-adjacent democracies in the Pacific. ## What to watch - Whether India and Indonesia announce a timetable on the preferential trade agreement during the summit - Whether India secures nickel and cobalt off-take agreements in Indonesia to reduce dependence on China's processing supply chain - The text of any joint statement between Modi and Albanese on critical minerals and defence-industry co-production - Whether Luxon and Modi agree to accelerate the stalled India-NZ FTA negotiations ## Regional takes (batched by bias / lens) ### unlabelled - **Ministry of External Affairs, India** (India, en) — Official MEA announcement of the three-nation visit: Indonesia July 6-8, Australia July 8-10, New Zealand July 10-11. The statement confirmed bilateral summits with Presidents Prabowo Subianto and Prime Ministers Albanese and Luxon, plus the India-Australia CEOs Forum in Melbourne. Source: https://www.mea.gov.in/press-releases.htm - **The Tribune India** (India, en) — Source: https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/anthony-albanese/pm-modi-to-interact-with-top-biz-leaders-address-diaspora-during-three-nation-visit-to-indonesia-australia-new-zealand - **Swarajya** (India, en) — Source: https://swarajyamag.com/news-brief/pm-modi-to-embark-on-three-nation-indo-pacific-tour-next-month-covering-indonesia-australia-and-new-zealand - **VOI (Indonesia)** (Indonesia, id) — Source: https://voi.id/en/amp/556750 - **Republic World** (India, en) — Source: https://www.republicworld.com/india/act-east-diplomacy-pm-modi-to-visit-indonesia-australia-and-new-zealand-what-s-on-agenda-2026-07-03-131138 - **The Sydney Morning Herald** (Australia, en) — Source: https://www.smh.com.au/ ### Indian wire / state-adjacent - **ANI (Asian News International)** (India, en) — First detailed briefing from New Delhi's official wire on the agenda. Modi will visit the UNESCO-listed Prambanan temple complex in Yogyakarta, co-chair the India-Indonesia Joint Commission, participate in the India-Australia CEOs Forum in Melbourne, and address Indian diaspora communities in Auckland. The New Zealand leg is singled out as historic: the last state visit by an Indian PM was Rajiv Gandhi in 1986. > "The PM's visit to New Zealand will be the first state visit of an Indian Prime Minister to the country in four decades." Source: https://aninews.in/news/world/asia/pm-modi-to-interact-top-biz-leaders-address-diaspora-during-three-nation-visit-to-indonesia-australia-new-zealand20260704004126/ ## Across the graph - Related: [[xi-myanmar-min-aung-hlaing-visit]], [[xi-pyongyang-state-visit]], [[india-russia-crude-record-jun29]] - Entities: Person:narendra Modi, India, Indonesia, Australia, Person:prabowo Subianto, Person:anthony Albanese --- Canonical: https://rbtfl.xyz/zh/n/modi-indo-pacific-tour-jul2026