Jul 23, 2014
"The election result will put Indonesia on par with the world's leading democratic countries."
Indonesia's election officials have declared that Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo (Jokowi), a popular politician from the city of Solo, will be the country's seventh president after completing the vote count late Tuesday. Widodo, who took 53.15 percent of the nearly 130 million votes cast, is the country's third president to be elected by a direct vote.
Jokowi Is Indonesia's Third President to Be Elected by a Direct Vote