Abstract

Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto is scheduled to be inaugurated on 20 October 2024. Aside from pledging “continuity” as the theme of his campaign in the 2024 Presidential Elections, Prabowo also formed a big coalition under the so-called Forward Indonesia Coalition or Koalisi Indonesia Maju. Prabowo even managed to expand the coalition by adding more political parties after the 2024 GE. Furthermore, Prabowo’s camp has floated the idea of expanding the size of the cabinet to accommodate the big coalition. This seminar aims to discuss the Prabowo administration’s priorities in the immediate and near term or “first 100 days”. It also seeks to explore the ways in which coalition politics affect cabinet formation, and whether this may have an impact on policymaking, governance, party politics and government relations with co-opted non-government organisations.

About the Speaker

Alexander Raymond Arifianto, is Senior Fellow and Coordinator of the Indonesia Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU. His research interests are contemporary Indonesian politics, political Islam, and Indonesian foreign policy. His articles have appeared in refereed journals such as Asia Policy, Religion, State, and Society, Trans-National and Regional Studies of Southeast Asia (TRaNS),

Leonard C. Sebastian is Senior Fellow at the Indonesia Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS). Educated at York University (Canada) and The Australian National University, his academic training is in History, International Political Economy and Strategic and Defence Studies. He has covered Indonesia in a career spanning more than two decades and published his first major work on Indonesia about defence and security doctrine titled Realpolitik Ideology: Indonesia’s Use of Military Force (2006).

Adhi Priamarizki is a Research Fellow at Indonesia Programme, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He holds a PhD in International Relations from Ritsumeikan University, Japan and a MSc in Strategic Studies from RSIS. Adhi wrote a doctoral dissertation on civil-military relations in Indonesia, Myanmar, and Thailand. His research interests include Indonesia’s military transformation, civil-military relations in Southeast Asia, and Indonesian politics. His publications have appeared in Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, Defense & Security Analysis, Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, Global Policy, and Contemporary Southeast Asia. His co-authored book with Muhamad Haripin and Keoni Marzuki, entitled The Army and Ideology in Indonesia: From Dwifungsi to Bela Negara, was published by Routledge in 2020.

Muhammad Haziq Bin Jani is Senior Analyst with the Indonesia Programme, at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Aside from Indonesian domestic politics and foreign policy, his research interests also include extremism, Islamism, and the nexus between religion and politics.