PRESIDENT Joko Widodo’s event at the indoor tennis court in the Central Lampung Regency, Lampung Province, two Fridays ago, was to distribute 1,300 land certificates to local residents. But in the middle of his address, Jokowi mentioned the smear campaign against him as the 2019 presidential election nears.

The President, wearing a round hat and a traditional Lampung stole on his shoulder, complained of a frequent slander: that he is an In