PRESIDENT Joko Widodo's trip to Washington, DC, last year was the start of Sri Mulyani Indrawati's journey home to Indonesia. Jokowi was in the United States from October 25 to 29 as a guest of President Barack Obama in Washington, DC, and he also planned to do a side trip to San Francisco, California. It was in Washington, DC, that President Jokowi invited Sri Mulyani, who was then managing director of the World Bank, to dinner.

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