I suppose you can scroll through the Globe's election returns as my Indonesia file is up-to-date and complete:
"Indonesian commoner is sworn in as president" by Joe Cochrane | New York Times October 21, 2014
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Joko Widodo, a commoner who was born in a Javan slum, was sworn in Monday as president of Indonesia, completing an improbable political rise from hometown mayor to leader of the world’s fourth most-populous nation.
Widodo, 53, is the first Indonesian president not to have emerged from the country’s political elite or to have been an army general. He succeeded Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who stepped down Monday after serving two five-year terms.
He better watch his back.
With a Koran, the holy book of Islam, held above his head, Widodo took the oath of office during a nationally televised special session of the People’s Consultative Assembly, a legislative superbody dominated by the House of Representatives.
Indonesia, an emerging democracy, is the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation and has the largest economy in Southeast Asia. Tens of thousands of people took part in a street celebration after the inauguration.
Widodo’s vice president, Jusuf Kalla, also took the oath of office during the ceremony.
Among the dignitaries in attendance were Secretary of State John F. Kerry, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore, and Prime Minister Tony Abbott of Australia.
‘‘To the fishermen, the workers, the farmers, the merchants, the meatball soup sellers, the hawkers, the drivers, the academics, the laborers, the soldiers, the police, the entrepreneurs, and the professionals, I say let us all work hard, together, shoulder to shoulder, because this is a historic moment,’’ Widodo said in his inauguration speech.
Widodo and his deputy traveled from the Parliament building to the presidential palace in an organized public party, the first in the country’s history after an inauguration.
Police estimated that 50,000 people attended the street party, which brought traffic to a standstill, the Associated Press reported. About twice that many attended an evening concert where Widodo made a speech and cut the top of a traditional cone of rice before returning to the palace for meetings with visiting leaders.
Indonesia is the fourth most-populous country in the world with about 250 million people. About 90 percent of its people are Muslims.
After years of dictatorship, the country has been trying to consolidate its transition to democracy.
The inauguration provided a respite for Indonesia from a tense political period that has endured since the country’s July 9 presidential election.
Widodo defeated Prabowo Subianto, a former general and son-in-law of Suharto, the late authoritarian president who was forced from office amid prodemocracy demonstrations in 1998.
Subianto, however, leads a coalition of opposition parties that controls a majority of seats and all the leadership positions in the House of Representatives and that has vowed to challenge Widodo’s policy agenda at every turn.
Meaning nothing will change.
Some opposition leaders have vowed to be obstructionist and have even called for corruption investigations against the new president from his time as mayor of Surakarta, in Central Java, as well as governor of Jakarta.
Must be Indonesia's version of Republicans.
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