Prabowos
Prabowo’s China dilemma – beragampengetahuan – Beragampengetahuan
Indonesian President elect, Prabowo Subianto, met with President of China, Xi Jinping, in Beijing on 1 April 2024. Prabowo Subianto has officially been declared the winner of Indonesia’s 2024 election. He will be formally inaugurated as president in September, now that Indonesia’s Constitutional Court has recently rejected a challenge of the election. For foreign policy […]
Defending the rule of law after Prabowo’s election victory – Beragampengetahuan
Anwar Usman was dismissed from his position as Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court for ethical violations. Photo Hafidz Mubarak A for Antara. According to unofficial polls, former Indonesian special forces commander Prabowo Subianto has won the 2024 Indonesian presidential election. Activists are now worried he will drag the country in an authoritarian direction because […]
Prabowo’s new cabinet: no room for technocrats? – Beragampengetahuan
Sri Mulyani, the current Minister for Finance, is unlikely to be appointed to Prabowo’s cabinet because of her opposition to key Prabowo spending proposals. Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka won the 2024 presidential election held on 14 February 2024 in a landslide. While serious concerns have been raised about the possibility of vote buying […]
No such thing as a free lunch: counting the cost of Prabowo’s ‘free food’ program – Beragampengetahuan
Photo by Antara. Unofficial counts from Indonesia’s presidential election on 14 February suggest a comfortable victory for Prabowo Subianto. Like his political backer, outgoing president Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, he brought a populist policy agenda to the table that appealed to Indonesia’s poor voters. Free food or makan gratis became a flagship program that Prabowo repeatedly […]