Below is an excerpt. Sign up to get the whole newsletter delivered to your inbox. Jakarta: Joko Widodo, the softly spoken furniture maker of modest origins and imperious appetites, is handing over ...

JAKARTA, Oct 14 (Reuters) - In 2014, then presidential hopeful and outsider Joko Widodo attended packed campaigns with a white ribbon warning against election fraud tied around his head.

resident Joko “Jokowi” Widodo intends to return to his Central Java hometown of Surakarta on Sunday, immediately after the inauguration of Prabowo Subianto and related events in Jakarta to ...

hen then-Jakarta governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo won the presidential election in 2014, his victory was widely celebrated, with many highlighting his humble beginnings in the Central Javan city ...

The archipelago nation of more than 17,000 islands is Southeast Asia’s biggest economy and has made great strides under the previous two terms of outgoing President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo ...

JAKARTA, Oct 15 (Reuters) - When Indonesian President Joko Widodo was first inaugurated in 2014, his eldest son didn't want to be there. Gibran Rakabuming Raka, then 27, had spent much of his life ...

JAKARTA, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- Visiting Chinese Vice President Han Zheng met with Indonesian President Joko Widodo here on Saturday. At the invitation of the Indonesian government, Han, as the ...

But the figure that Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo leaves office with after a decade running the world's fourth largest country speaks to the extraordinary influence he will maintain ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia, Oct. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- President Joko Widodo officially opened the 39th Trade Expo Indonesia (TEI), organized by Debindo at the Indonesia Convention Exhibition (ICE ...

They believe he will be more hands-on in managing foreign and defence policy than his predecessor, Joko Widodo. Prabowo’s various overseas visits from April through September saw him meeting ...

Analysis-A Decade of Jokowi: Indonesia's Democracy Icon Leaves Illiberal Legacy, Critics Say By Kate Lamb and Ananda Teresia JAKARTA (Reuters) - In 2014, then presidential hopeful and outsider ...