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Election in Indonesia Presents a Challenge for the U.S.
Election in Indonesia Presents a Challenge for the U.S.
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Indonesia’s President-elect Prabowo Subianto (left) speaks to reporters with Vice President-elect Gibran Rakabuming Raka (second left) as they arrive at the plenary session of the General Elections Commission after his main rivals’ challenges to his election victory were rejected in Jakarta, April 24.
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Indonesia’s President-elect Prabowo Subianto (left) speaks to reporters with Vice President-elect Gibran Rakabuming Raka (second left) as they arrive at the plenary session of the General Elections Commission after his main rivals’ challenges to his election victory were rejected in Jakarta, April 24.
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Prabowo Subianto will become the president of Indonesia in the Fall. Critics worry that the former general under a previous authoritarian government will roll back democracy. That presents a challenge for the U.S., which once trained and supported Prabowo, then subsequently banned him from entering the U.S. for twenty years.
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