Jokowi's relations with PDI-P hit a new low

President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo receives a slice of rice cone from Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) chairwoman Megawati Soekarnoputri during the opening of the party’s national executive meeting in Jakarta, on June 21, 2022. - Courtesy of Press Bureau of Presidential Secretariat

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): The relationship between President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), of which the President is a member, has gone from bad to worse in the leadup to the 2024 presidential election, as the highly popular leader seeks to carve out a political path for his family when he is no longer in the State Palace.

The PDI-P has repeatedly played down suggestions that its relationship with the President is strained, despite the latter’s political manoeuvres, which analysts have said severely undercut the interests of the nation’s largest party.