Eighty-One Years On, A President Raises His Fist

Jakarta, August 14. Friday morning. Parliament sits. The cameras roll. Gibran listens from his seat beside the podium. Somewhere in the room, Jokowi watches the man who succeeded him deliver a speech neither of them could have written the same way. Prabowo Subianto stands before the MPR for the second time as president. Fist raised. […]