Jokowi’s Political Ambitions Threaten Party Unity and Ideological Consistency
Megawati Sukarnoputri, the chairwoman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), highlighted that Joko Widodo would serve as a “petugas partai” (party duty bearer) when the PDI-P nominated him as its presidential candidate in 2013. But when Jokowi’s second term as president ends in 2023, it is clear that he is not, and likely never was, a true “PDI-P …