What will Prabowo Subianto’s foreign policy look like?
Indonesia’s new president wants his country to play a bigger role
On the news that Prabowo Subianto had won Indonesia’s election on February 14th to succeed Joko Widodo (Jokowi) as the country’s president, global political leaders rushed to toast him. Such enthusiastic scenes would have once been unthinkable regarding Mr Prabowo, an impetuous former special-forces general who was once barred from entering Australia and America for being implicated in human-rights abuses under the dictatorship of Suharto, his late father-in-law, though he always denied wrongdoing.
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This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “The four-star general’s plans”
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