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Touché !
Ah yes, Mr. Smith with the Maserati, eh ..... Mazda, remember him?
His court case for beating up some young guys will start Thursday in Bandung.
He's just against foreigners. Well, now he has to be.
His link with the current US government was rather strong with/via Hary Tanoe. But that guy jumped ship and is pro Jokowi again so I don't know what that did to the relationship.
But nowadays, the economic drivers are much more important. And the trade-war between the US and China overshadows everything which might make Prabowo the desired candidate for Trump c.s. But both candidates have a similar nationalistic view that more and more business income (read: Freeport, Chevron etc.) should stay in the country. Obviously the chance is we will never know how Prabowo would deal with these foreign companies active in mining, gas and oil, and the pressure from the US.
Of course it has been a big blunder to position Sandiaga as an Islamic scholar while he simply is an extremely rich business man formed by US capitalism. But he does bring up important economic issues that touch the man in the street. If they continue to keep on hammering on the price of products and inflation (so the purchasing power of the general public), they could make up quite something of the backlog in the polls.