Indonesia’s Jokowi in Heavy Weather on Charges of Meddling in Presidential Polls

Allegations of kingmaking threaten outgoing president’s neutrality

By: Ainur Rohmah

Indonesian President Joko Widodo, whose unprecedented popularity has made him almost a cult figure, has suddenly run into considerable trouble over what is regarded as undue meddling in the campaign to pick his successor and for his alleged intervention in the Constitutional Court to clear the way for his son, Gibran Rakabuming, to be no…