The silver lining of Indonesia’s economic miss

Outgoing leader: Happily, economic nationalism has been less strident in Jokowi’s later years than during his first term. — Reuters

BY his own standards, Joko Widodo has fallen well short of a major economic goal during his decade leading Indonesia.

Growth has been laudable in a neighbourhood where the pace of expansion is undergoing a long-term slowdown, but nowhere close to the outgoing president’s lofty ambitions.