For Jokowi, maintaining popular support and satisfying public demands was the essence of democracy. He was not interested in ...

The popular Joko Widodo, who kept a flock of pet goats, leaves office amid questions about whether democracy slid backward ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the time Jokowi - as the president is known - symbolised democracy and change, embodying the hope of a better, cleaner Indonesia. After two terms and a decade in power, he has left an indelible ...

Credit: AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim On December 2, 2016, dressed in a simple black peci, white shirt, and black trousers, plus a blue umbrella for the rain, Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi ...

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 ...

Spokespeople for the outgoing president, better known as Jokowi, as well as Gibran and Prabowo did not return requests for comment. The vice president has few statutory powers, so Gibran's ...

JAKARTA -- At 75, former Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has spent long enough in the corridors of power to know the value of getting a message across without spelling it out ...

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 ...

As Indonesia gets ready to transition from Mr Joko Widodo’s decade-long presidency to Mr Prabowo Subianto’s leadership, the narrative among some observers of “democratic backsliding” fails ...