Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto held a commanding lead in early, unofficial tallies of Indonesia’s presidential race Wednesday, potentially putting the former general on a path to claim victory in a three-way race to lead the world’s third-largest democracy. The 72-year-old candidate is a link to the brutal period of dictatorship that ended just over 25 … Read more
Indonesia is a nation on the rise. Already the fourth-largest country by population, it was identified by Foreign Policy last year as one of six swing states that will decide the future of global politics, and its economy is projected to become the world’s sixth-largest by 2027. Long derided as punching below its weight on … Read more
Magazine As Prabowo’s remarkable rise from disgraced exile to likely next president attests, in Indonesia things once thought buried can yet rise again. “This is the most pressure Indonesian democracy has been under since the end of Suharto,” said Andreas Harsono, a researcher at Human Rights Watch in Indonesia. The world’s third-largest democracy, he believes, … Read more