The Impact of Prabowo’s Budget Cuts
Monday, August 25, 2025
Regional governments are scrambling as central transfers shrink. Local leaders are finding their authority increasingly clipped.
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TEAR gas filled the air outside the regent’s office in Bone, South Sulawesi, on the night of Tuesday, August 19, 2025. Thick smoke spread in every direction, stinging the eyes and choking the lungs of thousands of protesters who had gathered to oppose sharp hikes in rural and urban land and building taxes (PBB-P2). Moments earlier, demonstrators had torn down the office gates.
The crowd retaliated by hurling objects at police. That night,
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