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A friend to follow: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (left) accompanies President Joko âJokowiâ Widodo (right) and First Lady Iriana (center) on a visit to the Facebook headquarters in Silicon Valley, the US, on Wednesday
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A friend to follow: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (left) accompanies President Joko âJokowiâ Widodo (right) and First Lady Iriana (center) on a visit to the Facebook headquarters in Silicon Valley, the US, on Wednesday. Jokowi visited the headquarters of Facebook, Google, Twitter and Plug and Play as part of his bid to expand the digital economy in Indonesia.(JP/Tassia Sipahutar) (left) accompanies President Joko âJokowiâ Widodo (right) and First Lady Iriana (center) on a visit to the Facebook headquarters in Silicon Valley, the US, on Wednesday. Jokowi visited the headquarters of Facebook, Google, Twitter and Plug and Play as part of his bid to expand the digital economy in Indonesia.(JP/Tassia Sipahutar)
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span class="caption">A friend to follow: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (left) accompanies President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo (right) and First Lady Iriana (center) on a visit to the Facebook headquarters in Silicon Valley, the US, on Wednesday. Jokowi visited the headquarters of Facebook, Google, Twitter and Plug and Play as part of his bid to expand the digital economy in Indonesia.(JP/Tassia Sipahutar)
Your comments on President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo's US visit and Indonesia's role in the US-ASEAN Summit in California:
I suspect that China will eventually suffer the same problems that Indonesia suffered when it depegged its currency from the US dollar. History repeats itself. Indonesia has good policies in place that I wish we had in the US, such as requiring a 30 percent down-payment on a home and forbidding foreigners from purchasing homes to prevent a bubble.
The biggest challenge in my mind for Indonesia is that it needs to realize that it can't go it alone. There is nothing wrong with partnering with successful countries and carving out a place of its own in the world. Indonesia has a lot of potential if Jokowi can move it closer to US and Western standards in property rights and anticorruption.
I'd love to see more venture capital investment in the country. My Indonesian wife would like to see the same.
Seacgk
Indonesia has no allies because you have pretty much alienated all of your neighbors with your nationalistic chest-thumping and unpredictability. Even Malaysia, a brother of sorts, is sick of your forest fires and periodic tantrums over cultural theft.
Devanagari
President Jokowi, look for better offers from China. That's where power is now, not with the has-been Americans.
Azizur Rachman
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