JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Joko Widodo's phenomenal rise from a riverside slum, where he grew up, to the presidency of Indonesia spotlighted how far the world's third-largest democracy had veered from a brutal authoritarian era a decade ago. With his second and final five-year term ending in October, Widodo — regarded by some as Asia's Barack Obama — is leaving a legacy of impressive economic growth and an ambitious array of infrastructure projects topped by a $33 billion plan to relocate Indonesia's congested capital to the frontier island of Borneo. Dismissed as a political lightweight by rivals when he first…
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