Jokowi reflects on decade-long presidency in final state address

In his final State of the Nation address today, marking the 79th anniversary of Indonesia’s independence, President Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, reflected on his decade-long presidency and the five-year tenure of Vice President Prof KH Ma’ruf Amin.

Jokowi reviewed achievements during his tenure, including the construction of 366,000km of village roads, 1.9 million metres of village bridges, 2,700km of new toll roads, 50 new ports and airports, 43 dams, and 1.1 million hectares of new irrigation canals.