Indonesia's President Joko Widodo drives a golf car with Vice President Jusuf Kalla, Widodo's wife Iriana (L), and Kalla's wife Mufidah, before posing for photographers with newly appointed cabinet ministers after an inauguration ceremony at the presidential palace in Jakarta October 27, 2014. REUTERS/Beawiharta
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo held his first cabinet meeting on Monday and gave his top four ministers until the end of the week to identify policy changes that would remove growth bottlenecks.
Widodo was elected president in July, promising to provide a clean and competent administration that endeared him to voters tired of shoddy infrastructure, corruption and poverty in Southeast Asia's largest economy.
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