Jokowi what makes you

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Reset Password Cancel. Sunday newsletter. Nonetheless, Jokowi has repeatedly voiced his expectation that minority religions will be tolerated, and rights advocates generally see him as an ally. Djafar, head of programs at the Wahid Institute, an organization that promotes tolerance in Indonesia. Indonesia, one of the only countries in the region never to have criminalized same-sex relations, now has legislators pledging to do just that.

While Jokowi himself has not joined in the rhetoric, he has also not, until very recently , made statements in defense of LGBT Indonesians. Since early on in his presidency Jokowi has spoken of drugs as a scourge in Indonesia. There is not much data to back this up. The President says that 40 to 50 young Indonesians die daily because of drug use. That information comes from a widely contested government study. In October , one year after Jokowi was inaugurated, huge swaths of his country went up in flames.

Most devastating for the environment were the burning of peatlands containing ancient carbon stores. A study released last month suggested that the smog may have led to the deaths of more than , people in Southeast Asia, with the majority of cases in Indonesia. Meijaard was initially optimistic that Jokowi, who studied forestry in university, had successfully instituted policies that would lessen the likelihood of out-of-control forest fires.

There was a clear message behind it. But despite these efforts there are increasing signs that fires are breaking out throughout western Borneo and parts of Sumatra. Finally he rubs his forehead and sighs.

Indonesians are accustomed to dominant leaders. That lack of pretense was on display one recent September day, as the sun shone hot enough on the outskirts of Jakarta for men to shade their heads with giant banana leaves.

Jokowi was fulfilling some of his final duties as governor by attending the groundbreaking of a subsidized-housing development. It was the kind of urbanization project—shorn of the usual land grabs and sweetheart deals—that Jokowi had promised to introduce nationwide during his campaign. As minor functionaries droned on, a goat bleated and roosters crowed under cockfighting baskets. Finally, the President-elect took the microphone and mumbled a few inconsequential words.

Local residents rearranged their sarongs and wandered back to their shacks, pleased to have caught sight of Jokowi, if less than overwhelmed. Jokowi remembered that this construction site was supposed to have been completed in eight months.

Jokowi marched out of his car and cornered the foreman, demanding answers. I want people to be scared so they will listen to my instruction.

The old guard, though, is still fighting. Prabowo, whose former troops were implicated in human-rights abuses during the Suharto era, narrowly lost the presidential election. In a controversial decision, the Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises had its employees under 45 return to work in the office on May Indonesia is also still unable to accurately trace individuals infected by the virus.

This is shown by frequent differences in data from the central government and regional governments on the number of infected individuals. Its testing policies have been heavily criticised , and limited protection has been given to health workers.

Many of them have died, but with no precise data available on how many. Indonesia is officially in recession after experiencing GDP contractions in second and third quarters of this year. Despite concerns that the election would worsen the spread of COVID, Jokowi has decided to go ahead with elections in regions in December.