Thirty-five honorary awards bestowed upon Prime Minister Narendra Modi by other countries | Graphics

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was awarded the ‘Bintang Adipurna of the Republic of Indonesia’ — the highest civilian honour of the archipelago nation — on Tuesday (July 7, 2026) during his two-day visit to the country, before he departed for Australia and New Zealand as a part of his three-nation tour.

This marks the 35th honorary award that has been conferred upon PM Modi since 2016, and the fifth award within a span of just two months. The other four nations that presented the honorary awards to PM Modi in the last two months are Sweden (May 17), Norway (May 18), Slovakia (June 15), and the Seychelles (June 28).

The state honours conferred upon PM Modi are showed in the graphic below.

PM Modi was the inaugural recipient of the ‘Guardian of the Blue Horizon’ which is the Seychelles’ special presidential distinction. This sparked an political row online with the opposition and critics pointing out the spelling mistakes in the certificate, alleging that the certificate was AI-generated, and that the honour had been instituted in haste just days before PM Modi’s visit.

The Seychelles Foreign Ministry released a statement on July 2, 2026 stating that the ‘Guardian of the Blue Horizon’ distinction ‘”is genuine. It was duly instituted by the Cabinet on 24th June 2026 and conferred by President Patrick Herminie on His Excellency Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of the Republic of India, during the Golden Jubilee National Day celebrations.”

Addressing the spelling mistakes in the certificate, the foreign ministry also added that the “specific image of the citation document now circulating online was a pre-final working layout, generated in part using digital design tools during preparation of the citation under a compressed timeline, and was never approved as the final version. It contains typographical and spelling errors, including on the seal, which the Ministry acknowledges and regrets”.