DESPITE having bad flu, Prabowo Subianto tried to appear cheerful. “Good, fine…everything is going well,” said this Chairman of the Board of Patrons of the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra). Nevertheless, the face of this retired lieutenant-general appeared weary. Lengthy negotiations with the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) at the Batu Tulis Palace, Bogor, had just ended on Friday night.

Prabowo’s car, together