{"id":87116,"date":"2019-04-04T01:43:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T23:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/04\/04\/joko-widodo-how-indonesias-obama-failed-to-live-up-to-the-hype\/"},"modified":"2019-04-04T01:43:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T23:43:25","slug":"joko-widodo-how-indonesias-obama-failed-to-live-up-to-the-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=87116","title":{"rendered":"Joko Widodo: how &#039;Indonesia&#039;s Obama&#039; failed to live up to the hype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As elections loom in one of south-east Asia\u2019s only true democracies, some wonder whether the president has done enoughFive years ago he was south-east Asia\u2019s democratic poster boy, Indonesia\u2019s Obama. His face plastered across Time magazine with three words: A New Hope.When Joko Widodo, or \u201cJokowi\u201d, was elected president of one of the only true remaining democracies in the region it was a moment of triumphant vindication \u2013 proof that outliers could trump an entrenched oligarchy, that an ordinary Indonesian could make it. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/apr\/04\/joko-widodo-how-indonesias-obama-failed-to-live-up-to-the-hype\" target=\"_blank\">Joko Widodo: how &#039;Indonesia&#039;s Obama&#039; failed to live up to the hype<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As elections loom in one of south-east Asia\u2019s only true democracies, some wonder whether the president has done enoughFive years ago he was south-east Asia\u2019s democratic poster boy, Indonesia\u2019s Obama. His face plastered across Time magazine with three words: A New Hope.When Joko Widodo, or \u201cJokowi\u201d, was elected president of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}