Prabowo Subianto

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Prabowo Subianto Djojohadikusumo (born October 17, 1951 in Jakarta ) is a former general of the Indonesian Army TNI and son-in-law of long-time President Suharto . Until his release in May 1998 after Suharto's resignation, he was one of the most powerful military rulers in Indonesia and in this role he was responsible for various human rights violations during the Suharto dictatorship .

He has been Indonesia's Defense Minister since October 2019 .

Life

The father Sumitro Djojohadikusumo, a professor of economics, had to flee the country in 1957 after an unsuccessful revolt that had failed despite the support of the US secret service CIA . Prabowo spent his childhood in Singapore , Kuala Lumpur , Switzerland and the UK until the family returned to Indonesia in 1968.

Prabowo Subianto graduated from military school in 1974 and two years later went to the elite unit Tim Nanggala X in East Timor , which belonged to the Kopassandha troops (later Kopassus ). He received his first special training in 1980 in Fort Bragg ( USA ) and around 1981 in West Germany with members of the GSG9 .

Prabowo in East Timor

Suharto's daughter, Siti Hediati Harijadi , nicknamed "Titiek", married Prabowo Subianto in 1983, and Prabowo was firmly integrated into the power network of the rulers. In the same year he took over the management of a KOPASSUS unit in East Timor. He founded the Tim Alfa militia in Lospalos and participated in a Kraras massacre in August 1983 , a reprisal against villagers after a FALINTIL raid in which 16 Indonesian soldiers died. Nearly 300 people died in retaliation. There was also torture and rape. The residents of the neighboring towns were forcibly relocated.

After another training excursion in 1985 to Fort Benning in the US state of Georgia , Prabowo stayed increasingly in East Timor. In the late 1980s he commanded Battalion 328 of the Strategic Army Command Kostrad , one of the two power centers of the Indonesian army alongside Kopassus, and in 1989 he founded the paramilitary militia Gada Paksi . Only days before the Santa Cruz massacre (more than 500 people died or disappeared without a trace) in November 1991, Prabowo was in the East Timorese capital Dili seen to Sjafrie Syamsuddin to visit, with whom he collaborated the military school Akabri visited. Both military are considered possible behind the massacre.

Eight years later Prabowo Subianto moved back to Kopassus and from 1993 commanded Group III in Batujajar near Bandung , which is responsible for training tasks. In the following two years he was a deputy in the special unit and from December 1995, after the restructuring of Kopassus, as brigadier general its commander in chief, until he moved to the head of the KOSTRAD brigades in March 1998 and thus held one of the most important positions of the TNI.

Prabowo Subianto

After the anti-Chinese riots in Jakarta in May 1998, killing 1,200 in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, which ultimately led to the departure of President Suharto , Defense Minister Wiranto dismissed General Prabowo on May 25 of that year. Members of the Kopassus troops who were loyal to Prabowo were instrumental in the unrest in Jakarta. They kidnapped and murdered supporters of the democracy movement. Prabowo left the country in the meantime and went to his brother in Jordan .

In 2008 he founded the Gerindra party ( Partai Gerakan Indonesia Raya - "Party of the Great Indonesia Movement"), which received about 4.3 percent of the vote in the parliamentary elections on April 9, 2009. At the end of the month Prabowo was selected as a vice-presidential candidate by Megawati Sukarnoputri's PDI-P party .

Prabowo regards the Turkish state founder and military officer Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as his role model. At the end of 2011, Prabowo announced that he would run for the 2014 presidential election. Here he was defeated by his competitor Joko Widodo from PDI-P with 46.85% . In the 2019 presidential election , he ran again against incumbent Widodo and was defeated again with a similar result (approx. 45%), which he did not recognize.

On October 23, 2019, he was appointed Minister of Defense by President Widodo.

Web links

Commons : Prabowo Subianto Djojohadikusumo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Rippert: Kohl pays Suharto "great respect and approval". In: wsws.org. May 27, 1998, accessed January 21, 2019 .
  2. ↑ John Braithwaite, Hilary Charlesworth, Adérito Soares : Networked Governance of Freedom and Tyranny: Peace in Timor-Leste , p. 108 , ANU press 2012.
  3. ↑ T. Friend: Indonesian Destinies . Harvard University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-674-01137-6 , pp. 323 .
  4. ↑ Jimmy Hitipeuw: Prabowo runs for President. In: kompas.com. November 22, 2011, archived from the original on November 25, 2011 ; accessed on January 21, 2019 (English).
  5. ↑ Andy Budimann: Great challenges for Joko Widodo. DW.de, August 22, 2014.
  6. ^ Indonesia: incumbent Joko according to extrapolation ahead. In: orf.at. April 17, 2019, accessed April 17, 2019 .
  7. ↑ After the election in Indonesia Widodo declares himself the winner. In: tagesschau.de. April 18, 2019, accessed April 18, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Indonesian President brings bitter opponents into the cabinet. In: orf.at . October 23, 2019, accessed October 23, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Prabowo Subianto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prabowo Subianto Djojohadikusumo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indonesian military, general of the Indonesian army
DATE OF BIRTH 17th October 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Jakarta