When Joko Widodo—a 53-year-old former furniture salesman and current governor of Jakarta—announced, in mid-March, that he was running to be Indonesia’s president, his actual election was treated as ...

Editor’s Note: Aaron L. Connelly is a research fellow in the East Asia Program at the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney, Australia. Earlier this month, Jakarta governor Joko Widodo, ...

Indonesians may be awaiting confirmation of their next president, but the financial markets have long since decided on their favorite. Can frontrunner Joko Widodo, known as Jokowi, deliver on their ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. This Blog is Part of a Series on Southeast and South Asian Democracy. When he took ...

Indonesians went to the polls on 9 July to elect a successor to Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who had served two terms between 2004 and 2014 and thus was constitutionally barred from ...

IN A gaggle of photographers, assorted hangers-on and just three security guards, a slight figure in a white shirt descends on Benhil, a dilapidated market in central Jakarta. Joko Widodo, known to ...

Indonesia’s President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has enjoyed consistently high approval ratings, better even than India’s popular Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In recent months, Jokowi has achieved as high ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Sometimes sure things turn out not to be so sure. Just ask Joko Widodo, who is ...