Not long after the last elected Indonesian president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, addressed federal Parliament in 2010 only a third of Australians thought his country was a democracy.
Last year after his successor and political outsider Joko Widodo ("Jokowi") won a hard-fought campaign to become the second re-elected president (after Yudhoyono) in the world’s third largest democracy, only a third of Australians still thought their near neighbour was a democracy.
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Greg Earl is an editor and writer. He was the AFR deputy editor, opinion editor, Asia-Pacific editor and a correspondent in Jakarta, Tokyo and New York. Connect with Greg on Twitter.
