Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and his eldest son no longer are members of the ruling party because of their support for an opposition candidate who won this year’s presidential election, a senior party official said Tuesday.
Jokowi, who won the presidency twice with the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), was seen as having backed the opposition’s Prabowo Subianto and his running mate, Gibran Rakabuming Raka – the president’s eldest son – instead of his party’s nominee, the official said.
The president,…
