FOREIGN AFFAIRS Indonesia’s President-elect Joko Widodo*

The announcement by Indonesia’s electoral commission that Joko Widodo, the popular governor of Jakarta, was decisively elected President of Indonesia for the next five years, marks the beginning of a new era in Indonesian politics. Joko Widodo Politically, the history of Indonesia since independence can be broken into three periods. The first was the Sukarno era, which lasted from 1945, when Indonesia declared independence from the Netherlands, until 1967, when President Sukarno w…

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