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Will Jokowi's millennial touch bear fruit?
From haircuts to sneakers, since his ascendancy to the national political stage, Jokowi has taken pains to present himself as being in tune with the younger "millennial" generation, but will his apparent closeness to young people translate into real policies that help them?
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Rich Brian meets with President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo at the Bogor Presidential Palace, West Java on July 7. (twitter.com/setkabgoid/File)
"Mas Herman, if I wanted to change my hairstyle to what kids these days are wearing, what would it be?" President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo asks his regular barber in his latest vlog, uploaded on Sunday.
"You could go with an undercut," Herman, who has regularly tended the President's hair since he was the governor of Jakarta, replies. “It’s a style in which the hair on each side of the head is shorter, with the top part slicked back."
From haircuts to sneakers, since his ascendancy to the national political stage, Jokowi has taken pains to present himself as being in tune with the younger "millennial" generation, but will his apparent closeness to young people translate into real policies that help them?
During the recent presidential election campaign, for example, Jokowi made a point of visiting young entrepreneurs and promoted a pre-employment card for young job seekers as one of his main campaign promises.
