Sunday was Prabowo’s inauguration as President. After three direct attempts and a 2008 run as VP to Megawati Soekarnoputri, the formerly disgraced Army General has now moved in to the Merdeka Palace.
Prabowo put together a big tent coalition including drafting Jokowi’s son, Gibran Rakabuming, as his VP, causing a constitutional crisis as the court decided to illegally reinterpret the Constitution for his eligibility. He’s not old enough. The Court’s Ethics Council later determined the ruling was unconstitutional and demoted the Chief Justice but left the illegal decision to stand (go figure).
Jokowi was the furniture seller who gave Prabowo the biggest cabinet the country has seen since Soekarno was deposed in a coup by Prabowo’s ex father in law, Soeharto.
“Prabowo’s administration is setting out with a bold, self-reliant vision for Indonesia, promising to fix corruption, achieve food and energy independence, and lift up the poor. Can he do it?”
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