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Indonesia’s Joko Takes Center Stage

Indonesia’s Joko Takes Center Stage

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Oct 20, 2014
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Indonesian President-elect Joko Widodo was inaugurated into office Monday morning in Jakarta after a hectic interregnum in which it appeared that his opponent in the July 9 national elections, Prabowo Subianto, might seek to steal the office from him.

The 53-year-old president, known universally as Jokowi, still faces heavy going from a political elite s…

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