Prabowo Subianto - Indonesia at Melbourne

Prabowo should not be paying for diplomacy (but he should stop travelling so much)

There is something profoundly unsettling about the suggestion that Indonesia's president might personally pay for his official overseas travel. Not because it reflects generosity, but because it reflects institutional failure.

Police vs prosecutors? Indonesia’s latest corruption scandal exposes elite fracturing under Prabowo

Analysis, Corruption, Law, Politics

The corruption case implicating top prosecutor Febrie Adriansyah reflects not only the institutional rivalry between the police and the prosecutors. It also exposes the broader conflicts involving major oligarchic factions in the country.

Prabowo’s managed coercion is reshaping Indonesia’s political-economic order

Analysis, Economy, Policies, Politics

Prabowo’s regime has demonstrated that the state retains a latent, potent capacity to dictate the terms of economic accumulation. But this does not imply the erasure of Indonesia’s elite networks, but rather a structural rearticulation of their relationship with the state. While the oligarchs are currently forced to adapt to these centralising arrangements, their compliance should not be mistaken for permanent submission.

Indonesia’s economic centralisation under Prabowo

Analysis, Economy

The question for Indonesia today is whether Prabowo’s unbridled centralisation will deliver the sustained economic growth that it promises, or merely build new institutions that distort the coordinating work of markets. Economic centralisation certainly offers more command over the nation’s wealth and a stronger hand in bargaining with the world, but any policy is only as good as the hands that work it.

How Prabowo is expanding the military’s civilian role as an instrument of presidential rule

Analysis, Policies, Politics, Security

Under the Prabowo administration, the Indonesian military is becoming increasingly embedded in civilian policy implementation under direct presidential control.

Academic freedom in peril as Indonesian campuses face deepening state incursions

Analysis, Human Rights, Politics, Society, Uncategorized

Indonesia does not need universities that merely repeat government policies and adopt its priorities. It needs universities that can examine and criticise them - and warn society when public power begins to exceed its proper limits.

Prabowo’s foreign stooge myth: Are Indonesians buying it?

Analysis, Highlights, Policies, Politics, Prabowo Subianto, Society

Although more people disagree with the president’s statement, the fact that 39.5% of the public agrees with Prabowo’s statement cannot be taken lightly, especially given that the president’s supporters and aides continue to amplify allegations of foreign interference through Indonesian proxies on traditional and social media.

From ‘foreign agents’ to ‘deep state’: how security rhetoric is redefining who counts as Indonesian

Analysis, Politics, Society

The broader implication is a shift in how political contestation is understood. When criticism is framed through the language of security and foreignness, political debate moves away from questions of policy and towards questions of belonging, which, ironically, are then used to isolate and exclude many loyal Indonesians who love their country.

[ONLINE SEMINAR] - What’s coming for Indonesia as Prabowo consolidates his power?

Advertisement, CILIS, News & Events

With the global financial crisis triggered by the military escalation in the Middle East set to squeeze Indonesia’s economy, the president will have to navigate fiscal pressures from rising global oil prices, fracturing elites, and increasing social and economic grievances. In this online seminar, regular Indonesia at Melbourne contributors — Riandy Laksono, Ahmad Syarif Syechabubakar, Ahmad Rizky M Umar, Maidina Rahmawati and Eryanto Nugroho — will discuss how the Prabowo administration responds to these challenges and how it will shape Indonesia’s political and economic trajectory in the years ahead.

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