Jokowi’s supporters want to keep him in office

File photo of a printing company employee checking ballot papers for the 2019 presidential election in Jakarta. Despite calls from some to extend Jokowi’s term, Indonesia’s General Elections Commission has already announced the next election date and is making preparations. — The Jakarta Post/ANN

INDONESIAN President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has less than two years before he steps down but his diehard supporters have been tinkering with ways to keep him in power beyond 2024.

A group calling itself the Prabowo-Jokowi joint secretariat filed a petition last week with the Constitutional Court to review the General Elections Law to pave the way for Jokowi to run for the country’s second-highest post.