Businesspeople in the President’s Inner Circle

Monday, February 3, 2025

Several business figures are part of Prabowo Subianto’s inner circle, resembling the Benteng Program, which once granted privileges to indigenous entrepreneurs.

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President Prabowo Subianto (center), joined by Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman (second right) and businessman Andi Syamsuddin Arsyad, also known as Haji Isam (right), converses with farmers during a field inspection of agricultural land in Telaga Sari Village, Kurik District, Merauke Regency, South Papua, November 3, 2024. Antara/Galih Pradipta. tempo : 174546665155.

A MONTH after meeting with top executives of major Japanese corporations at the State Palace in Jakarta, Andi Syamsuddin Arsyad, better known as Haji Isam, traveled to Japan. A video of Isam’s visit, accompanied by his two children and a son-in-law, circulated on social media in mid-January 2025. One of the widely shared photos showed the Kalimantan-born entrepreneur at the Oshima Shipyard in Nagasaki. “A Code from Haji Isam,&rdq

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