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Indonesia's Joko Widodo took over as president of the world's third-largest democracy on Monday with supporters' hopes high but pressing economic problems and sceptical rivals set to test the former furniture businessman.
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Widodo's narrow victory over a former general in July's election marked the first time in the young democracy's history that a president was elected from outside the established military and political elite.
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"I
swear by Allah to fulfil the duties of President of the Republic of Indonesia
to the best of my capabilities and in the fairest way possible," Widodo
said, reading the oath of office, at a ceremony in a packed parliament.
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US secretary of state John Kerry attended the inauguration along with various Asian leaders including the prime ministers of neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore, the Sultan of Brunei and Australia's prime minister.
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"He has climbed up to the top of the pyramid but he's still weak within the powerful political class," said Achmad Sukarsono, a political analyst at the Habibie Centre, think-tank. "He needs time to be seen and accepted as part of that class otherwise he will face resistance."
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