IF Ibnu Khaldun were still alive, he would enjoy the recent dispute between Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie and Prabowo Subianto. After all, the 15th century intellectual known as the founder of the modern historical method was of the opinion that history cannot be written based on facts alone, but must be linked to the context and paradigms around the time that the incidents happened.

Just look at the dispute between B.J. Habibie and Prabowo Subianto,