Indonesian leader Prabowo now heads to China despite deadly Jakarta protests
Southeast Asia’s biggest economy was rocked by the widespread protests, which left at least six dead and were initially sparked by the handing out of lavish perks to lawmakers. — File pic via AFP
Wednesday, 03 Sep 2025 9:17 AM MYT
JAKARTA, Sept 3 — Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto will visit China for a military parade commemorating 80 years since the end of World War II today, after earlier cancelling his trip over deadly domestic protests stoked by the death of a young delivery driver.
Southeast Asia’s biggest economy was rocked by the widespread protests, which left at least six dead and were initially sparked by the handing out of lavish perks to lawmakers.
Prabowo was forced to revoke some of the incentives in the wake of the demonstrations.
State Secretariat Minister Prasetyo Hadi said the Indonesian leader left for China on Tuesday evening and was due back a day later.
“Today he monitored the situation and received reports from all relevant officials that public life was gradually returning to normal,” said Prasetyo.
Prabowo and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping were expected to meet for talks during the visit, he said.
The rallies have become smaller in recent days after the lawmaker perks were revoked and the military was deployed to the capital on Monday in a show of force.
Prabowo will now join the more than 25 leaders—including North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and Russia’s Vladimir Putin—who will attend Wednesday’s parade centred on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
Xi invited Prabowo for the huge spectacle, in which China will showcase its military prowess, with troops marching in formation, flypasts and high-tech fighting gear on display.
Millions of Chinese people were killed during a prolonged war with imperial Japan in the 1930s and 40s, which became part of a global conflict following Tokyo’s attack on the United States’ Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Indonesia maintains a neutral foreign policy through which it maintains strong relations with both Washington and Beijing. But Prabowo has pledged to boost ties and defence cooperation with China. — AFP
Bullyland's Jakarta-Bandung HSR is hemorrhaging money by the millions per day.
ReplyDeleteThe new capital Nusantara project ($33 billion) is also facing a huge crater, investors are pulling out and project heads resigning.
So riot or not, Prabowo has to gostan balik to Beijing for that all-important meeting with the Mafia Boss BullyXi, songkok-in-hand, to ask for more money.
https://youtu.be/fWENuDSu05Q?feature=shared
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/indonesia-nusantara-capital-city-top-officials-resign-investments-jokowi-governance-4410046
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/03/asia/indonesia-officials-resign-nusantara-new-capital-intl-hnk
Jakarta-Bandung HSR can't even cover it's operation costs, let alone pay off it's capital debt.
DeleteUnless Indo is prepared to keep pouring cash into the pit, until someday..maybe..maybe never ... revenues increase sufficiently to make it a sustaining business.
Never ever envisaging the spilling-over economic & social effects of transportation, mfer!
DeleteThere r ONLY a handful of Mass Transportation Projects allover the world that r running profitable. Yet, majority of the countries still continuously investing in these projects.
Ooop … sustaining business as in ur heirloom business!
Twisting a social incident due to inbred corruption meme-ed I've generations through a selective filter len!
DeleteCari pasah, s'jah, all u doomsayer mfers.
Rail transportation throughout the world experience losses but is nonetheless still required as a public necessity. Few countries bother to upgrade their systems eg USA which has seen pathetic rail transportation in the States, a national disgrace for a supposedly leader of the 1st World nations
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