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The Jakarta campaign was smart, fresh and aimed at Indonesia's teeming, social media-adapted young. His father was a wood seller and furniture maker. Jokowi's early life was not luxurious at first, he came from a family that was less able to make ends meet. "These books are mostly about [Sukarno's economic doctrine] Marhaenism ...

“I very rarely take the MRT (subway) because it is more ―expensive than a bus ride,” he wrote on his blog during his time in there, adding that his mother had refused to increase his ―meagre allowance. In 2002, Jokowi was elected chairman of the local Furniture Manufacturers' Association. In 2018, Megadeth’s lead singer Dave Mustaine invited Jokowi to attend the band’s concert in Indonesia; although he could not attend, Jokowi opened the event via a video greeting.

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He said he had preferred to work from “bottom-up” rather than “top-down.” In a city of small merchants and traders, he had made it easier to procure business permits and licenses.

His father, Widjiatno Notomihardjo, was a carpenter, and his mother, Sujiatmi, was a housewife. “That's the plan,” Widodo told Bloomberg Television in a recent interview. By 1991, the company had begun exporting its products and achieved success in international markets, particularly in Europe. When Mr Joko’s daughter, Kahiyang Ayu, 23, injured her hand, she insisted on being taken to a community health centre ―instead of an expensive private clinic, and waited for a doctor.

“A blog by Mr Joko’s youngest son, 17-year-old Kaesang Pangarep, has shone a light on the first family’s private life, with tales of his father playing practical jokes and worries about what to wear to school adding to the sense they are merely normal, middle-class folk.

But here the resemblance to the U.S. president ends. He barred family members from bidding on city projects, kept a modest lifestyle, and famously donated his mayoral salary back to the city. Will they be impartial, biased or lean towards supporting certain political parties or figures? Tom Pepinsky wrote in the Washington Post in 2014: “Part of what makes Jokowi so exciting to many Indonesians is his political story: even though he is the governor of Jakarta, he came to this position relatively” shortly before becoming president,” having made his political career as mayor of Solo, a smaller city in Central Java.