Jakarta, April 18 -- President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has asked former British prime minister Tony Blair to help accelerate the digital transformation of bureaucracy in Indonesia.

Widodo received the executive chairman of The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change at the Presidential Palace here on Thursday.

State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform Minister, Abdullah Azwar Anas; Minister of State Secretary, Pratikno; and Minister of Investment/head of the Investment Coordinating Agency (BKPM), Bahlil Lahadalia, were also present at the meeting.

"I and the Investment Minister were asked by Mr. President to be there during the meeting with Tony Blair. One of the things related to us is the digital transformation of the Indonesia...