Youth and the "Jokowi effect" : strike while the iron is hot?

• Main Authors: Chen, Jonathan, Syailendra, Emirza Adi
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103889; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20081
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The governor of Jakarta, Joko Widodo, has taken the nation by storm with his down to earth approach. Youth are perceived to be most attracted to this phenomenon dubbed the “Jokowi effect”. Is his appeal among youth representative of a desire for change beyond the man that can last until the 2014 e...