Whitewashing a Candidate
Monday, July 31, 2023
The support for Prabowo Subianto from Budiman Sudjatmiko and other 1998 activists is a form of political pragmatism. A disavowal of justice for the victims.
AS an activist from the 1990s who opposed the New Order regime, it seems that Budiman Sudjatmiko finds it easy to change his views about the past. When supporting Joko Widodo in the 2014 and 2019 presidential elections, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) politician explicitly attacked Prabowo Subianto, Jokowi’s opponent, who when still a serving member of the military was involved in the kidnapping of activists in 1997 and
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