Hercules Does Not Like Being Called a Thug
Hercules and GRIB Jaya are closely related to Prabowo Subianto and the Gerindra Party. They have become even more notorious since Prabowo became president.
M. Khory Alfarizi
May 12, 2025
DURING Joko Widodo’s presidency, United Indonesian People’s Movement (GRIB Jaya) was largely absent from the spotlight. But the paramilitary mass organization founded by Rosario de Marshal, a.k.a. Hercules, reemerged after Prabowo Subianto won the 2024 presidential election. According to Ian Douglas Wilson, a senior researcher at Murdoch University’s Indo-Pacific Research Center in Australia, that resurgence stems from the close
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