On the morning of August 14, with Taiwan officialdom tightlipped and making repeated denials of any forthcoming trip to Indonesia, Vice President Annette Lu boarded a plane headed for that country, accompanied by Presidential Office Deputy Secretary-General Joseph Wu and Tourism Bureau director Hsieh Wei-chun-the highest Taiwan officials to visit Indonesia since 1994, when former President Lee Teng-hui proceeded to the resort island of Bali to engage in "vacation diplomacy."
八月十四日上午，在國內官員嚴守口風、否認連連之際，副總統呂秀蓮在總統府副秘書長吳釗燮、觀光局處長謝謂君陪同下，悄悄搭機前往印尼。這是繼前總統李登輝於民國八十三年赴印尼進行「渡假外交」後，國內出訪印尼的最高層級官員。