Indonesia’s Elections Commission (KPU) declared Jakarta Governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo the winner of the nation’s presidential election.  The first president coming from outside the ranks of the wealthy and powerful is promising major reforms to help Indonesians and international investors.

“This victory is a victory for all the people of Indonesia,” Jokowi told supporters.  “With humility, we ask the people.. to go back to a united Indonesia.”

The President-elect said his immediate goals are to simplify life for investors with improvements to Indonesia’s scant infrastructure, unravel unnecessarily Byzantine regulations, and to fire government officials if they were not up to the job.  He’s also going to have to work with Australia to repair relations that were strained by revelations that Oz had listened in on the phone calls of outgoing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY), his wife and inner circle.

“The Australian government is looking forward to working closely with him,” Prime Minister Tony Abbott said of Joko Widodo.  “The relationship with Indonesia is extraordinarily important to us.”

The United States views Indonesia as an increasingly important partner in Asia to balance China’s rise.  US Secretary of State John Kerry predicted that the two countries “can jointly address common regional and global challenges.”

But Jokowi’s parade has already had a little rain.  Instead of an expected uptick, the Jakarta stock exchange was down two percent on worries over the losing candidate’s increasingly shrill challenge.  It’s not clear what former losing candidate Prabowo Subianto and his followers will do next, after the former general alleged the vote was rife with “massive fraud”.

In the end, the vote was close, but not that close.  Jokowi won with just over 53 percent, Subianto got just under 47 percent.  The inauguration is scheduled for October.