Big support: Officials and staff at the presidential palace waving Indonesian flags and holding up banners as Jokowi’s motorcade leaves the palace in Jakarta. — AFP
JAKARTA: Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, who rose from poverty and pledged to champion democracy, fight entrenched corruption and modernise the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, was sworn in for his second and final five-year term with a pledge to take bolder actions.
Army troops and police, along with armoured vehicles, firetrucks and ambulances, were deployed across the vast capital, Jakarta, and major roads were closed in a departure from the more relaxed atmosphere of the popular Jokowi’s 2014 inauguration.
