Jakarta

INDONESIAN President Joko Widodo put two experienced technocrats into key economic management posts on Wednesday in a Cabinet reshuffle designed to reassure investors worried about a policy drift that has allowed growth to slip to a six-year low.

Mr Joko's choice of ministers defied expectations that his own party would compel him to make political appointments, a move that may surprise critics who say he has not been the robust leader they had hoped for when he took office last year.