Hey, remember when we told you to tell Time magazine if you think Indonesian President Joko Widodo should be their Person of the Year? Well it’s too late now! And your laziness has led to our beloved leader from getting shut out of Time’s official shortlist of candidates and losing badly in their readers’ poll.
On Monday, Time’s editors revealed their shortlist of eight candidates for the Person of the Year title. The list included some very worthy choices, such as Vladimir Putin and Jack Ma, the CEO of Alibaba. But it also included Roger Goodell, the commissioner of America’s National Football League (showing the magazine’s huge America-centric bias – does anybody care about American Football outside of the USA?) and Taylor Swift.
That’s right, Taylor Swift made Time’s shortlist but Joko Widodo didn’t.
The Time’s editors reasons for picking the pop star: Swift shook up the music industry by removing her songs from music service Spotify.
Which is obviously more important than shaking up the political system of entrenched elitism and corruption in the world’s fourth largest country and inspiring its people with a hope for change that they had not experienced in over a generation. Which is all Jokowi did.
But the part that really bugs us is that Jokowi did terribly in Time’s reader’s poll, coming in at 8th place with only 2.7% of the vote. You could even have voted for him on Twitter. C’mon social media capital of the world, where were you at?
