Outgoing Indonesian president Joko Widodo has managed in ten years to make his country an economic giant. He is not running in the February 14 presidential election due to constitutional term limits.
In 2024, the country will become the fifth largest economy in the world, replacing the United Kingdom, according to projections from the World Bank and the IMF. The essential reason for this sudden acceleration is the growth of the middle class, which was still almost non-existent around fifteen years ago in the Indonesian archipelago.