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After 100 days, Indonesia's President is tested but still goes to the people

January 26th, 2015
04:57 PM ET

Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) - It would be easy not to pay Joko Widodo a second glance as he rides his bike down a Jakarta boulevard wearing track pants and white sneakers.

But fill that boulevard with thousands of Javanese out for the Sunday stroll, and you soon realize he is no ordinary Indonesian.

"Jokowi!" they shout - using the nickname by which the country's new President is universally referred - reaching out to him for handshakes and selfies.

"Pagi!" - "Good morning!"

In October, he took office as president of this enormous Pacific archipelago of about 250 million people - the largest Muslim-majority country in the world.

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