The Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, will miss his first face-to-face meeting since winning office with the US president, Barack Obama, who has cancelled his visit to the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit in Bali due to the US government shutdown.
The Indonesian foreign minister, Marty Natalegawa, announced the president had cancelled his plans and said he would be replaced by secretary of state, John Kerry.
"Of course the president of Indonesia fully understands the situation that President Obama is facing and at the same time is confident that the discussion that we are to have here in Bali will continue in the manner that we have been preparing for," Natalegawa said.
The news was widely expected as Obama had cancelled his plans to visit Malaysia and the Philippines after the Apec summit, which runs from Sunday to Wednesday.
The Obama administration is locked in a budget impasse with the Republican party, which is trying to use the budget bill to extract changes to Obama's Affordable Care Act.
"The president made this decision based on the difficulty in moving forward with foreign travel in the face of a shutdown, and his determination to continue pressing his case that Republicans should immediately allow a vote to reopen the government," the White House said.
