Indonesia's president, who mingles with people and listens to Metallica, still popular in last term | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

JAKARTA--Joko Widodo’s phenomenal rise from a riverside slum, where he grew up, to the presidency of Indonesia spotlighted how far the world’s third-largest democracy had veered from a brutal authoritarian era a decade ago.

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