Australia’s clandestine extraction of five former drug smugglers from Indonesia looked like a victory. So what’s with all the secrecy?
The arrest of Thomas Lembong,who is well-known and respected in Australian political circles,has raised the eyebrows of those trying to understand the new administration of Prabowo Subianto.
Prabowo Subianto hadn’t even lived a day of his presidential honeymoon period when China started harassing a state-owned ship. What’s it all about?
Prabowo Subianto’s inauguration as Indonesian president on Sunday caps a remarkable political comeback from years on Western blacklists.
The ruling has sparked street protests from backers of the failed presidential candidates,who had both claimed fraud.
The runner-up duo has now lodged legal action alleging Joko Widodo’s son was ineligible to run despite a court’s green light.
The prickly ex-general on Friday welcomed Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles to Jakarta to speak about people smuggling,the Navy and an upgraded defence agreement.
Long the loser,former military hardman Prabowo Subianto is expected to become Indonesia’s next president. This is how he did it.
Nickel was a rising star of Australia’s battery-driven green energy mining boom,but then events in Indonesia changed everything.
If confirmed in the official tally next month,the 72-year-old would fulfil a decades-long dream of high office. Victory would also install the 36-year-old son of popular incumbent Joko Widodo as the nation’s vice president.