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Indonesia 2026: Noise in Uncertainty

Monday, January 5, 2026

Why we are publishing the Indonesia 2026 special edition. Crucial topics that demand attention.

President Prabowo Subianto leads a plenary cabinet meeting at the State Palace in Jakarta, October 20, 2025. Tempo/Imam Sukamto. tempo : 177077978611.

DEMOCRACY is loud and unruly, historian Anne Applebaum wrote in Twilight of Democracy. But not because of the rambling of state officials. Democracy is noisy because citizens speak up—voicing grievances, criticism, and commentary on policies and conditions, on the conduct of officials—acting as taxpayers and as a public that stands at the center of a republican system. President Prabowo Subianto knows this principle.

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