{"id":59404,"date":"2023-10-25T12:18:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T03:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/25\/from-making-money-selling-pancakes-to-vice-president-joko-widodos-son-aims-for-the-top"},"modified":"2023-10-25T19:52:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T10:52:26","slug":"from-making-money-selling-pancakes-to-vice-president-joko-widodos-son-aims-for-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59404","title":{"rendered":"From making money selling pancakes to vice-president? Joko Widodo\u2019s son aims for the top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gibran Rakabuming Raka wants to follow in his father\u2019s footsteps, but can he shake off public anger over allegations of nepotism?<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia\u2019s next vice-president could be a familiar face. Gibran Rakabuming Raka, 36, is the son of the current president, Joko \u201cJokowi\u201d Widodo, and his swift rise to the top of the country\u2019s political echelons is proving controversial, raising questions about dynasty-building and the strength of the country\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1987 in Central Java, Gibran was educated in both Indonesia and in Singapore. His father ran a furniture company for much of his childhood, and Gibran was 17 when Jokowi took office as mayor of Solo, his first position before he became governor of Jakarta and, later, in 2014, president.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/25\/from-making-money-selling-pancakes-to-vice-president-joko-widodos-son-aims-for-the-top\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gibran Rakabuming Raka wants to follow in his father\u2019s footsteps, but can he shake off public anger over allegations of nepotism?Indonesia\u2019s next vice-president could be a familiar face. Gibran Rakabuming Raka, 36, is the son of the current president, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,156,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59422,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59404\/revisions\/59422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}