President of Indonesia
On 20 October 2014, Joko Widodo became the seventh and current president of Indonesia.
2019 Indonesian general election
The official campaigning period is planned to last around 6 months, starting with a "peaceful campaign" declaration on 23 September 2018, with it being scheduled to last until 13 April 2019. Prior to the start of the campaign, both parties submitted their campaign teams to the KPU, with Jokowi's team being led by businessman Erick Thohir while Prabowo's was led by former Indonesian National Armed Forces panglima Djoko Santoso.
In January 2019 it was rumored by Yusril Ihza Mahendra that Jokowi was considering releasing Islamist Abu Bakar Ba'asyir due to old age and declining health. The move was seen as controversial in Indonesia as part of a growing number of actions taken by Jokowi to appease Indonesia's conservative Muslims ahead of the election. The government later suspended this attempt as Ba'asyir refused to accept Pancasila as his ideology, instead stuck to his fundamentalist Islam point of view.