Furniture businessman-turned-politician Joko Widodo enjoyed a breakout year in 2014, when he rode a wave of popularity and bested a blue-blood candidate to be elected Indonesia's seventh president.
His promise of reforms in a country long ruled by oligarchs appealed to not only the man in the street but also a rising middle class in South-east Asia's largest economy.
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