Jokowi Ridiculed For Not Being Good At English, Denny Siregar: Language Is Used As A Benchmark, If That's The Case, My Child's Teacher Will Be President Lu!

President Jokowi with US President Joe Biden ahead of a dinner with ASEAN leaders. (Setpres doc)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) was judged not to be good at communicating in English when United States (US) President Joe Biden invited ASEAN leaders to dinner at the White House recently. Social media activist Denny Siregar did not accept it.

Denny assessed that the proficiency of state leaders in international languages is not a benchmark for running the wheels of government. According to him, there is something more important than

"Hey, how come English is used as a benchmark for leading the country. If that's the case, just take my child's English teacher as your president," said Denny in response to the netizen's assessment through his Twitter account, @Dennysiregar7, quoted on Tuesday 17 May.

President Jokowi is known to have just attended the ASEAN-US Summit in Washington. When the series of summits ended, Jokowi and other high-ranking ASEAN countries were invited to attend a dinner with President Joe Biden at the White House.

The event first started with a photo session with the leaders of ASEAN countries. Jokowi and Biden who were next to each other in the photo session were seen laughing at each other.

This visit to the US was also given by Jokowi to meet the CEO of space technology company SpaceX and Tesla car, Elon Musk. The meeting took place at SpaceX's headquarters in Boca Chica, Texas, USA, Saturday May 14, local time.

Together they are filled with discussions about technology and investment. Including the exploration of cooperation between the richest person according to Forbes magazine and Indonesia.

"I think he (Elon Musk) is very interested in coming to Indonesia immediately, and he said he could come to Indonesia," said Jokowi, according to the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube.