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President Joko Widodo announces that the Indonesian Food and Drug Authority approves the emergency use of the Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine for children aged 12 to 17 years old.
2021-06-28

President Joko Widodo receives the first dose of the vaccine candidate developed by Sinovac Biotech.
2021-01-13

After "seriously considering feedback from different parties who feel objections on some substantial content", Indonesian President Joko Widodo postpones the vote on a new criminal code, intended to replace the century-old Dutch colonial-era penal code. The proposed code would criminalise extramarital sex, insults to the president and "obscene acts".
2019-09-23

Indonesian President Joko Widodo announces North Penajam Paser and Kutai Kartanegara regencies as location of the future capital of Indonesia. He says government will prepare a bill to submit in the House of Representatives as soon as possible.
2019-08-26

A suicide bomber attacks a police station in Solo, Indonesia, killing himself and injuring a police officer. Solo is the birthplace of President Joko Widodo.
2016-07-5

Indonesian President Joko Widodo issues an executive order (Perppu) making child sexual abuse punishable by chemical castration and extends the maximum penalty to death.
2016-05-26

The President of Indonesia Joko Widodo calls for calm in the province of Aceh after a person was killed and a church burned down yesterday.
2015-10-14

The President of Indonesia Joko Widodo announces that he will seek help from other nations in putting out illegally lit forest fires that have caused the haze.
2015-10-8

An Indonesian court rejects Andrew Chan's and Myuran Sukumaran's appeal against the President of Indonesia Joko Widodo's refusal to grant them clemency against the death penalty as organisers of the Bali Nine plot to smuggle heroin to Australia in 2005.
2015-04-6

Election results indicate that the Governor of Jakarta Joko Widodo has been elected as the President of Indonesia.
2014-07-20