Prabowo Subianto is in a strong position to gain the presidency he has long coveted. If he wins, Indonesia is set for a reckoning with the legacies of its authoritarian past.
It’s become the worst-kept secret in Jakarta that President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo increasingly sees advantage in having his defence minister, Prabowo Subianto, succeed him in 2024.
The aura of being Jokowi’s favoured successor matters because he approaches his last year in office with his approval ratings just above 80 per cent, an all-time high.
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Liam Gammon is a research fellow in the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research and an editor at East Asia Forum (www.eastasiaforum.org) in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the ANU’s College of Asia and the Pacific.
