Jokowi pursues his agenda but popularity is dropping: Jakarta Post

Indonesian President Joko Widodo. - Reuters

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN):- In his biography of Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo, 'Man of Contradictions', former Financial Times correspondent Ben Bland insists that the seventh Indonesian president does not intend to emulate Soeharto's authoritarian style of governing.

Bland, who has followed Jokowi's trajectory from his hometown Surakarta to the Presidential Palace, however does not hesitate to call Jokowi "a poor guardian of democracy".