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Today, Sunday morning, October 20, former general Prabowo Subianto is being sworn in as Indonesia’s new president. In this episode on Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liu and Azeezah Kanji talk with Intan Paramaditha and Michael Vann about the road leading up to this inauguration, beginning in the 1960s with the Suharto regime. Prabowo is a strong-arm authoritarian figure with a bloody record of human rights violations, yet he has remade his image as a cuddly, elder populist figure. We spend some time talking about how his regime is likely to continue, ...
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Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto, David Palumbo-Liu, Michael Vann, Intan Paramaditha, Joko Widodo, Suharto regime, human rights violations, feminism, decolonial, art world, Jakarta protests, development policies, indigenous peoples, election law, rebrandi