Jokowi asks followers to stop campaign to uninstall Bukalapak app

Jokowi asks followers to stop campaign to uninstall Bukalapak app

Joko "Jokowi" Widodo. Photographer: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg

President Joko Widodo urged his supporters to end a social-media campaign that called on Indonesians to uninstall an app run by a popular online shopping site, after the company’s founder criticized the government’s research and development budget.

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