Joko Widodo

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Joko Widodo (born Mulyono, 21 June 1961), also known as Jokowi, is an Indonesian politician who is the 7th and current president of Indonesia.

He was first president not to come from an elite political or military background from 2005 to 2012, and Governor of Jakarta from 2012 to 2014. In 2009, he achieved national prominence for his services as the Mayor of Surakarta.

Basuki Tjahu's (often known as Ahok) as the running mate of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), a member of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P).

Fauzi Bowo, the defeating incumbent, took power in October 2012 and resurrected Jakarta politics with reenergized Jakarta politics (unannounced spot checks) and improving the city's bureaucracy, reducing corruption in the process.

He also introduced years-late services to raise the quality of life, including universal healthcare, dredging the city's main river to minimize flooding, and the first-person installation of the city's subway system.

He was elected president-elect in the popular vote on July 22, 2014, despite bitter opposition from his opponent, Prabowo Subianto, who disputed the outcome and resigned from the race before the count was complete.

Jokowi has concentrated on infrastructure, whether or not long-awaited projects to improve connectivity in the Indonesian archipelago.

Despite significant pressure from foreign powers, including Australia and France, his administration has emphasized "protecting Indonesia's sovereignty" and the issuance of capital punishment for drug smugglers.

He ran for re-election in 2019 and was re-elected.

Early life

Jokowi was born in Surakarta on June 21, 1961, and is of Javanese descent. He is the eldest of four siblings and the sole son of Noto Mihardjo (father) and Sudjiatmi Notomihardjo (mother). He has three younger sisters, named Iit Sriyantini, Ida Yati, and Titik Relawati. His father came from Karanganyar, while his grandparents came from a village in Boyolali. In Javanese, Jokowi was often sick as a child, and his name was changed from Joko Wido to Joko Wido, with wido meaning "health" in Javanese. He began working in his father's furniture factory at the age of 12. During his youth, Jokowi's family suffered with evictions from their landlords; this greatly affected him; later in his career, he arranged medical housing in Surakarta during his time as mayor of the city.

At State Elementary School 111 Tirtoyoso, which is known for being a school for less wealthy students, Jokowi's education began. He continued his studies at State Junior High School 1 Surakarta and later decided to attend State Senior High School 1 Surakarta, but missed the entrance exam and enrolled in State Senior High School 6 Surakarta.

Jokowi began working at PT Kertas Kraft Aceh (id), a state-owned company in Aceh, Sumatra, after graduating from university. He served in the Bener Meriah Regency from 1986 to 1988 as a forest and raw materials supervisor for a Pinus merkusii plantation.

However, Jokowi became disinterested in his company's work and returned home. He spent a year in his grandfather's furniture factory before establishing Rakabu, whose nameake is his first child. Following an IDR 500 million loan from Perusahaan Gas Negara, the company, which mainly concentrated on teak furniture, nearly went bankrupt at one point but recovered after an IDR 500 million loan. The company began exporting its products in 1991, and they were very successful in international markets. Bernard, a French customer, gave Joko Widodo the name "Jokowi" when it first appeared in France, and it was a French customer named Bernard.

Jokowi was elected chairman of Surakarta's furniture manufacturers association by 2002. Since discovering the neat layouts of several European cities while promoting his furniture there, he decided to become a politician and promote change in his home town, Surakarta. He joined Mayor David Cameron and former lieutenant general Luhut Binsar Pandjahtera as a founder of PT Rakabu Sejahtera (from Rakabu and Luhut's Toba Sejahtera).

Jokowi's net worth in 2018 stood at Rp 52.5 billion (US$3.5 million), mainly in the form of property holdings in Central Java and Jakarta.

Family and personal life

In 1986, Jokowi married Iriana. The couple has two sons and one daughter. Gibran Rakabuming Raka (born 1 October 1989) and his first son, Gibran Rakabuming Raka (MDIS) studied abroad in Sydney and Singapore and now runs a catering and wedding planning company in Surakarta. Kahiyang Ayu (born 20 April 1991), the family's only daughter, graduated with a bachelor degree in food science at Sebelas Maret University in Surakarta. Kaesang Pangarep (born 25 December 1994) was their second son and joined ACS International, Singapore, as a young student and a web vlogger. Jokowi has five grandchildren, including a grandson and a granddaughter from Gibran (born in 2016 and 2019 respectively), a granddaughter and two grandsons from Kahiyang (born in 2020 and 2022 respectively), as well as two grandsons from Kahiyang.

Several members of Jokowi's family have announced that they intend to run as candidates in the 2020 municipal elections. Gibran has announced his candidacy for Surakarta's mayorship, in addition to his son-in-law Bobby Nasution (Medan) and brother-in-law Wahyu Purwanto (Gunung Kidul Regency). Both Gibran and Bobby won their elections in 2021 and 2021, and they were elected.

Jokowi has been described as "Muslim but broadly secular" in his outlook. His statement in 2019 that religion and politics should be separate sparked a national discussion over whether he was supporting secularism in the region. A film called Jokowi, a film reimagining Jokowi's childhood and youth, was released in June 2013. He expressed some reservations about the film, saying that his life had been simple and that it was not worthy of being turned into a film.

Jokowi "has a penchant for loud rock music" and plays a bass guitar signed by Robert Trujillo of heavy metal band Metallica, which was confiscated by the KPK, according to The Economist. In November 2017, Danish Prime Minister Lars L. Rasmussen, who was on a official visit to Jakarta, gave Jokowi a Metallica Master of Puppets vinyl box as a diplomatic gift. Lars Ulrich, the band's drummer and co-founder, was able to buy it, a Danish immigrant. Jokowi paid IDR 11 million ($800) out of his personal funds to recover the document, which had been designated as a state asset to prevent charges of gratification.

He has also been noted by many as being very similar in appearance to former US president Barack Obama; his outsider political fame has also sparked comparisons to Obama.

Jokowi is a silat specialist. Since attending junior high school and eventually mastering it, he had been practicing Setia Hati Terate from Persaudara Hati Terate school. On November 16, 2013, he earned his first degree pendekar warga rank of the silat school.

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Political career

Jokowi first joined PDI-P in 2004, taking the mayoral election in Surakarta with F. X. Rudyatmo as his running mate, with the help of PDI-P and the National Awakening Party. Slamet Suryanto, the incumbent, and two other candidates polled a combined 36.62%. Many people questioned his identity as a property and furniture dealer during the campaign. However, one academic journal said his leadership style was fruitful because it forged an interactive relationship with the people, which allowed him to evoke people's trust in him. As a tour guide in Surakarta, he used the European cities (which he frequently traveled to as a businessman) to help with the urban transition.

He's top priorities as mayor included building new traditional markets and renovating existing ones, rebranding the Balekambang and Sriwedari parks, establishing tighter guidelines on tree cutting along the city's main street, rebranding the city as a center of Javanese culture and tourism, promoting the city as a center of Javanese culture and tourism, including the introduction of a local bus rapid transit system named Batik Solo Trans and a Solo Techno Park

He launched the blusukan, an overnight flight to specific locations to listen to people's needs, which was very popular later in his political career. He also barred his family members from bidding on city-wide initiatives, thus minimizing the chance of corruption. His actions brought him into conflict with then-province governor Bibit Waluyo, who called Jokowi a "fool" for the latter's opposition to a provincial building project in Surakarta on one occasion.

His followers cited rapid positive changes in Surakarta under his leadership and the city's branding with the tag 'Solo: The Spirit of Java.' During his tenure as mayor, he successfully relocated antique stalls in Banjarsari Gardens without incident, highlighting the importance of business firms engaging in community involvement; he increased local visibility by appearing on local television. He applied for Surakarta to become a member of the Organization of World Heritage Cities, which was approved in 2006 and then moved the city to host the conference in October 2008.

The World Music Festival (Festival Musik Dunia/FMD), held at the Fort Vastenburg complex near the city's center in 2007, was also held in 2007. It was held in the Mangunegaran Palace Complex the following year.

Parts of Jokowi's style were his populist 'can-do' (punya gaye) elements that were intended to develop links with the general population. He became personally involved in a situation right before Christmas 2011 when Surakarta's state-owned electricity company Perusahaan Listrik Negara had overdue bills due to a $1.8 billion (IDR 8.9 billion) in late payment (PLN).

The city had a blackout on street lights in the city right before Christmas as a result of a more disciplined approach to collecting overdue bills. The city council accepted payments quickly, but others, including the PLN, demanded that the PLN consider the public interest before taking such action. To emphasize the point, Jokowi paid a visit to the local PLN office to deposit the IDR 8.9 billion in cash in the form of hundreds of bundles of notes and even small coins.

He was re-elected for a second term in 2010 and his rival, Hadi, was running for a second term. They received 90.09% of the vote, despite losing in just one polling station. He was later named as the 'Tempo Leader of Choice' by Tempo news magazine (2008) and then awarded the 'Changemakers Award' by Republika newspaper (2010); his name was also considered in national polls for Jakarta's governorship, including those by University of Indonesia and Cyrus Network (2011).

Jokowi's first name in 2012 as he announced his candidacy for the governorship of Jakarta. Save Solo, Save Jakarta, and Save Indonesia's team (TS3), a group claiming to have facilitated misappropriation of education funds by his subordinates in Surakarta in 2010. The KPK investigated the allegation and found it was based on inaccurate information, but that there was no evidence that Jokowi had misappropriated funds.

Despite some Surakarta residents' insistence that Jokowi would not complete his second term as mayor, the incumbent Fauzi Bowo was defeated in a runoff round in 2012. According to news, his inner circle of consultants in Jakarta included people like FX Hadi 'Rudy' Rudyatmo, Sumartono Hadinoto, and Anggit Nugroho, who worked with him when he was mayor of Surakarta, as well as Basuki Tjaho ("Ahok"), his deputy as Jakarta's governor. Jokowi continued the blusukan tradition he had adopted as mayor of Surakarta by regularly visiting population centers, especially slums. On these trips, he wore simple, informal clothing, stalled, and stopped at markets or walked along narrow Jakarta alleys to listen and witness firsthand problems addressed by locals, such as food cost, housing difficulties, flood, and transportation. According to polls and media coverage, his hands-on style became extremely popular both in Jakarta and elsewhere in Indonesia.

After taking office, taxes and Jakarta's provincial budget increased sharply from IDR 41 trillion in 2012 to IDR 72 trillion in 2014. Both Jokowi and Ahok's monthly salary as well as the provincial budget were disclosed. They also introduced initiatives aimed at increasing transparency, such as online taxes, e-budgeting, e-purchasing, and a cash management system. In addition, all meetings and activities that Jokowi and Ahok attended were recorded and posted on YouTube.

The 'Healthy Jakarta Card,' a universal health-care scheme in healthcare, was introduced in Jokowi (Kartu Jakarta, KJS). It involved an insurance policy offered by state-owned insurance company PT Askes Indonesia (Persero) as well as a initiative to control health care for over 20,000 services and procedures. The scheme had been chastised for inconsistency over the design and long lines, but Jokowi defended it and encouraged patience. On December 1, 2012, Jokowi introduced the 'Smart Jakarta Card' (Kartu Jakarta Pintar, KJP) to benefit needy students. It gives an allowance that can be withheld from ATMs for school needs such as books and uniforms.

His administration's other notable initiatives include: a program of bureaucratic recruitment lelang jabatan (literally 'auction of office positions), giving every civil servant the same opportunity to succeed by meeting the required qualifications, monitoring the chaotic agglomeration of street vendors in Pasar Minggu and Pasar Tanah Abang, the dredging and reservoir normalization schemes to reduce floods, and the inauguration of long-delayed Jakarta MRT and Jakarta LRT. Despite demonstrations by several locals, Jokowi also appointed a non-Muslim 'lurah' (subdistrict chief) for the Muslim-majority subdistrict of Lenteng Agung. Former deputy governor Prijanto ruled that Jokowi committed misconduct in use of the government certificate of BMW Park by granting another expired license.

Jokowi was alerted to the National Commission on Human Rights in 2013 for the eviction of the squatters near Pluit. He had promised not to evict people to far away locations in previous "political contracts." To minimize floods, Jokowi spoke with residents of Pluit and Komnas HAM to explain that evictions were required for restoring water catchment to minimize flooding and that families were relocated to low-cost apartments.

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