Indonesia Pragmatically Picks a Prabowo Presidency But the Dust Has Not Settled, University of Melbourne’s AsiaLink , February 22, 2024

By Julia Lau, Senior Fellow and Co-Coordinator of the Indonesia Studies Programme, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, Made Supriatma, Visiting Fellow in the Indonesia Studies Programme, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, and Dr Yanuar Nugroho, Visiting Fellow, ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute

Based on unofficial quick counts, Prabowo Subianto is poised to be Indonesia’s next president. The question now turns to how big his governing coalition in parliament will be and whether any olive branches he extends to his opponents will be accepted.

At the time of writing, unofficial “quick count” results based on samples of votes from polling stations show that Prabowo Subianto is likely to win Indonesia’s 2024 presidential election in a single round. The vote counting will take over a month to be finalised, with the official results due on 20 March.

Based on data from various news and polling company sources, the percentage of national votes that Prabowo Subianto has won is in the range of…

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