Sponsoring ‘Little Sukarno’
Prabowo Subianto is determined to become a presidential candidate. He is doing so at the behest of close friends and his financier.
May 5, 2009
PERMADI SH, 68, has a dream of unifying two ‘Sukarnos’. The first is Prabowo Subianto, the presidential candidate for the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra), who he refers to as ‘Little Sukarno’. The other is Puan Maharani, the granddaughter of the proclaimer of Indonesian independence. Permadi, a politician from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) who is now a member of Gerindra’s Advisory Council, wants the two
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