Next month, Joko Widodo, the governor of Jakarta, will be sworn in at the Parliament building, completing a stunning rise from a child of the slums and carpenter to leader of the world’s fourth-most-populous nation. Sixteen years after Suharto, the authoritarian president whose corrupt and brutal military-backed regime ruled the country for 32 years, was forced to resign amid violent pro-democracy protests, Indonesia has become a role model for peaceful, democratic transfers of power in Southeast Asia, a region where they are becoming increasingly rare.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:55:33 +0000
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