Former Labor prime minister Paul Keating has been tapped to become a strategic adviser on East Asia to Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto and join the advisory board of Indonesia’s sovereign wealth fund known as Danantara.

Prabowo invited Keating to take on the roles in a personal letter delivered by Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Sugiono when he visited Australia earlier this year, according to people familiar with the offer but not authorised to speak to the media.