Eight women in Widodo Cabinet

JAKARTA: New Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Sunday unveiled a Cabinet including the country’s first female foreign minister, as well as political allies and technocrats in key economic posts.

Reaction was broadly positive to the appointment of Retno Marsudi, Indonesia’s ambassador to the Netherlands, as foreign minister. Widodo, known as Jokowi, said that she “works hard and is firm and visionary.”