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Candidate profile: Prabowo Subianto

He cofounded the Gerindra Party in 2008 and as its chairman (2014-present), he made two unsuccessful bids for the presidency in 2014 and 2019.

Prabowo accepted his party’s nomination on Aug. 12, 2022 to run for a third time. He registered as a presidential candidate on Oct. 25, 2023, with the backing of the Gerindra-led Onward Indonesia Coalition (KIM), which groups several pro-government parties of the ruling coalition.

What is his background?

Prabowo was born in Jakarta on Oct. 17, 1951, the third of four children to one of the most powerful families in Indonesia. His father, Soemitro Djojohadikusumo, was a prominent economist and politician who held several ministerial posts under presidents Sukarno and Soeharto. His mother, Dora Marie Siregar, was a housewife who studied surgical nursing in the Netherlands.

His grandfather, Margono Djojohadikusumo, was the founder of Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) and the first head of the Supreme Advisory Council, which was disbanded in 2003.

Prabowo spent most of his childhood overseas due to

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Recent public opinion polls show that the top three potential presidential candidates for Indonesia's 2024 elections are Central Java governor Ganjar Pranowo, Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan and Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto.

On 12 August, Prabowo was nominated by his party, Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party, to run in the 2024 presidential election, making him the only candidate among the three to officially confirm his candidacy.

Prabowo is a controversial figure with a complex background.

Meanwhile, on 4 September, Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) executive Puan Maharani (daughter of former Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri) and her political team met Prabowo in Hambalang, West Java. The two political parties agreed to cooperate on the grounds of common interest, including both being nationalist parties. When asked by the media if they would run alongside each other in the presidential election, Prabowo revealed that it was highly possible.

Prabowo is a controversial figure with a complex background. He was born to a

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Prabowo, born in Jakarta on 17 October 1951, is son of renowned economist Sumitro Djojohadikusumo (1917-2001). After high school, Prabowo decided to pursue a military career and enrolled in Indonesia's Military Academy in Magelang (Central Java) between 1970 and 1974. He quickly passed through the ranks of the army and became Commandant of the Special Command Force General (Kopassus) and was later appointed as head of the Army Strategic Reserve Command (Kostrad). However, in the late 1990s the regime of president Suharto, Prabowo's father in law, starting to crumble until its collapse in 1998. Based on witness accounts of Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie (Indonesia's third president) and retired army officer Sintong Panjaitan, Prabowo attempted a (failed) coup when he positioned his army units close to the house of then president Habibie, shortly after the fall of Suharto.

Prabowo is a highly controversial figure in Indonesia. He is regarded as a human rights violator when he was stationed in East Timur to crush the East Timorese independence movement in the early 1990s. Reputedly, Prab