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Close enough not good enough for Jokowi’s cabinet picks

Author: Edward Aspinall, ANU (Courtesy East Asia Forum) — Indonesia’s new president, Joko Widodo (Jokowi) promised to bring a new spirit of reform to Indonesia. Indeed, he has offered nothing less than a ‘mental revolution’. In his first real test, the formation of cabinet, Jokowi seems to have gone for realpolitik over reform. What is striking about the new cabinet he announced on 26 October is how familiar it looks. It’s a cabinet with the […]