Joko Widodo presidency under heavy fire

Indonesia’s Joko Widodo has hardly had a glorious start to his presidency. The man who tackled the establishment and became the reform-minded darling of Indonesia’s middle classes in the run-up to last year’s election now seems to be at war with everyone.

Indecisiveness at home has caused his approval rating to tumble from 75 percent to 46 percent. It wasn’t helped by widespread perceptions that former president Megawati Sukarnoputri, who is also head of Jokowi’s ruling PDI-P, was actually in charge of the country.