Jokowi’s to-do list

HE SAYS it himself: expectations have been high since he became president in October, after a gripping election showed how Indonesia’s democratic politics are impressively robust. Joko Widodo, or Jokowi as he is known, promises growth of 7% a year by 2018. Yet for all his fine aspirations, the country underwhelms. The economy is stumbling, growing by 4.7% in the first quarter compared with a year ago, the slowest pace since 2009. But most worrying is Jokowi’s rhetoric of economic nationalism. Rather than an agent of change, he is sounding more like his tub-thumping predecessors. For the sake of 250m Indonesians, he needs to change his tune, and fast.