JAKARTA -- Indonesian President Joko Widodo has made a bid to become a leader of the Muslim world on his six-day tour of South Asia, as he sheds his inward-looking foreign policy ahead of elections later this year and next.
"Being the country with the world's largest Muslim population ... is a great political strength in our global relations," he said during a meeting with Indonesian citizens in Islamabad on Friday. He said it was time for Indonesia to pay "special attention" to the Muslim world -- not only in the Middle East but also in South Asia.
