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Indonesia’s president, who mingles with people and listens to Metallica, still popular in last term

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Joko Widodo’s phenomenal rise from a riverside slum, where he grew up, to the presidency of Indonesia spotlighted how far the world’s third-largest democracy had veered from a brutal authoritarian era decades ago. With his second and final five-year term ending in October, Widodo — regarded by some as Asia’s Barack Obama — is leaving a …

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