Hands on: Jokowi speaking to reporters during an interview in Jakarta. — Bloomberg
JAKARTA: Glancing at an iPad attached to a keyboard on a long wooden table in his palatial Jakarta office, Indonesian President Joko Widodo doesn’t look like your average political street brawler.
Commonly known as Jokowi, the 58-year-old leader of the world’s fourth most-populous nation routinely flashes a disarming smile while laying out his long-term economic vision in a mix of English and Indonesian, the language that unites the diverse archipelago of 17,000 islands.
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