Joko's Volunteers Await Their Role

THE JOY of the thanksgiving gathering that afternoon gave way to grief. Around 30 former members of a working group from President Joko Widodo's Transition Team questioned the role they might have in the new administration.

"Where will the volunteers be taken?" I Gusti Agung Putri Astrid Kartika said in Jakarta on Tuesday last week, recounting the meeting of a week earlier. "They want the post of director-general, agency head or whatever."

November 11, 2014