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Patsy Widakuswara: Jakarta native asking Trump administration tough questions

The VOA journalist was reassigned hours after pressing United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on his statements about the election.

Tri Indah Oktavianti (The Jakarta Post)
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oice of America (VOA) journalist Patsy Widakuswara recently became a center of attention after she was reassigned and demoted on Jan. 11, hours after she tried to interview United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the aftermath of a violent riot in the Capitol building.

In footage posted on her Twitter account @pwidakuswara on Jan. 11, she was heard trying to ask Pompeo a question. “Mr. Secretary, what are you doing to repair the US reputation around the world?”

She also pressed Pompeo on whether he regretted saying there would be a second Trump administration following Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. He ignored her questions.

An Indonesian native living in the US, Patsy, who has been VOA’s senior White House correspondent since 2018, has used her Twitter account to share quotes from prominent politicians that sometimes contain criticism of Trump.

“Among the many ironies in @SecPompeo lauding press freedom at @VOANews event, he commended VOA journos for covering Hong Kong pro-democracy protests. I was part of the team honored with the Burke Award for the coverage,” she tweeted on Friday.

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