JAKARTA -- When news broke that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo supposedly secured Russian President Vladimir Putin's agreement to open a sea route for Ukrainian wheat exports, many Indonesians uttered one word: "Indomie."
One popular tweet called the Indonesian leader's potentially dangerous trips with first lady Iriana to Kyiv and Moscow last week "Indomie missions." Another said, "Jokowi is going all the way to Moscow just for Indomie." Despite the President himself naming his trip a peace mission, "the things Indonesians do for Indomie," said another.
