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Joko Widodo

  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    Indonesian politics
    Indonesia’s parliament postpones election rule change after protests

    Opponents of outgoing president Joko Widodo say proposals are aimed at extending his family’s influence

    A protester wearing a black mask and hoodie holds up a poster with the word "REVOLUTION" during a rally against controversial changes to election laws. In the background, a fire burns on the street near the parliament building in Jakarta, Indonesia.
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Indonesian politics
    Indonesia hits fresh setbacks over planned $30bn jungle capital

    Independence day event scaled back and foreign dignitaries’ invitations rescinded amid construction delays

    Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo and his successor Prabowo Subianto in Nusantara on Monday
  • Thursday, 15 February, 2024
    Indonesian politics
    What Prabowo Subianto’s presidential election win means for Indonesia

    Former general expected to adopt more populist stance than predecessor Widodo for south-east Asia’s biggest economy

    Prabow Subianto leans out of the sun roof of a car to shake hands with a member of a crowd of supporters
  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    Indonesian politics
    Former general Prabowo projected to win Indonesia election

    Sample ballot results show ex-special forces commander is on track to succeed popular incumbent Joko Widodo

    Prabowo Subianto gives the victory sign after casting his vote
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    News in-depthIndonesian politics
    How Indonesia’s Prabowo became favourite to lead

    Support from popular president Joko Widodo has lifted the 72-year-old once barred from the US over human rights concerns

    Presidential candidate and Indonesia’s defence minister Prabowo Subianto at a campaign rally
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    Ruchir Sharma
    A popular anti-populist’s exit poses a challenge for Indonesia

    After a decade of stability in a country not known for it, Joko Widodo will be a hard act to follow

    Close up three quarters view of a smiling Joko Widodo
  • Sunday, 11 February, 2024
    News in-depthIndonesian politics
    In charts: how the Widodo era remade Indonesia’s economy

    Nickel boom and infrastructure splurge have delivered steady growth but ambitious goals will require diversification

    Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo
  • Wednesday, 24 January, 2024
    News in-depthIndonesian politics
    After Widodo: Indonesia votes on president for next chapter of nickel boom

    Investors hope successor will maintain path that transformed economy into a commodities powerhouse

    A pedestrian in front of campaign banners in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
  • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
    Interview
    Indonesia’s president pushes US over delayed $20bn funding for green transition

    Joko Widodo questions west’s ‘commitment’ to helping developing countries cut climate emissions

    Indonesian president Joko Widodo in August 2022
  • Friday, 20 October, 2023
    Indonesian politics
    Indonesia presidential race starts with Joko Widodo’s legacy and family in focus

    Leader cannot stand for election again after decade at helm of fast-growing economy

    Joko Widodo
  • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
    Behind the Money podcast17 min listen
    Indonesia's secret to economic success

    The FT’s Mercedes Ruehl explains how Indonesia has thrived amid a shaky past few years for the global economy

  • Wednesday, 21 December, 2022
    LexCommodities
    Bauxite: holding resources hostage will impede Indonesia’s growth Premium content

    President Joko Widodo is playing a dangerous game

    Joko Widodo
  • Monday, 12 December, 2022
    News in-depthIndonesian politics
    Balancing act of Indonesia’s morality law upsets activists and Islamists

    Ban on sex outside marriage disturbs rights advocates while angering conservative groups

    A police officer stands guard on a road leading to the police station where an explosion went off in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia on Wednesday
  • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
    Indonesian politics
    Indonesia to ban insults against president under new criminal code

    Parliament approves changes that also outlaw sex outside marriage

    Two activists hold posters outside parliament in Jakarta on Monday
  • Friday, 11 November, 2022
    News in-depth
    Indonesia’s president steps on to world stage as G20 host

    Joko Widodo prepares for geopolitical balancing act with Ukraine war raging and US-China tensions high

    European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo, US president Joe Biden and Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency at the G7 summit in Germany in June
  • Monday, 7 November, 2022
    G20
    Indonesia’s president has ‘strong impression’ Putin will miss G20 summit

    Host Joko Widodo tells FT he reached the conclusion after speaking to Russian leader last week

    Indonesian police officers stand in front of a G20 sign
  • Monday, 7 November, 2022
    Gideon Rachman
    The first global summit of the second cold war

    Joe Biden and Xi Jinping may meet at the G20 in Indonesia, whose president embodies an older non-aligned tradition

    Illustration of Jo Biden, Joko Widodo and  Xi Jinping sitting at a wooden table looking at a large screen showing Vladimir Putin at the other end of a long white table
  • Sunday, 2 October, 2022
    InterviewIndonesia
    Indonesia on the hunt for investors to back its new capital

    Jakarta is sinking but experts warn government cannot afford Joko Widodo’s ambitious legacy project

    An illustration of Indonesia’s future presidential palace in Nusantara
  • Tuesday, 20 September, 2022
    The Big Read
    Indonesia’s unexpected success story

    The economy is prospering despite the sense of crisis elsewhere but the country’s politics could become more unstable

  • Monday, 12 September, 2022
    Interview
    Indonesia’s president Widodo to consider ‘all options’ on Russian oil

    Leader of south-east Asia’s largest economy wants to buy cheaper fuel to tame soaring energy costs

    Joko Widodo, Indonesia’s president speaking in the presidential palace
  • Friday, 19 August, 2022
    G20
    Xi and Putin to attend G20 summit in Bali, says Indonesian president

    November conference raises prospect of a meeting with Biden in wake of growing tensions with west

    Joko Widodo arrives at a Hyundai manufacturing plant on Thursday
  • Sunday, 30 January, 2022
    News in-depthNikkei Asia
    Indonesia’s new capital Nusantara sparks controversy

    Critics object to ‘Java-centric’ name amid claims of hasty legislation and corruption concerns

    A design illustration of Indonesia’s future presidential palace
  • Sunday, 24 January, 2021
    News in-depthIndonesia
    The smiling ex-general who has become Indonesia’s ‘Mr Fixit’

    Luhut Pandjaitan has emerged as President Joko Widodo’s right-hand man

  • Sunday, 10 January, 2021
    Indonesia
    Indonesia relies on vaccine rollout as officials lose ‘control’ of pandemic

    With Covid-19 cases rocketing, Jakarta bets on inoculating 180m citizens across 10,000 islands

  • Sunday, 6 December, 2020
    News in-depthIndonesian politics
    Indonesia looks to Biden for more ‘professional’ stance on China

    US faces task to win back strategically important nation after Beijing makes inroads

    Joko Widodo on the deck of an Indonesian navy ship in 2016
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