Who is actually Prabowo Subianto, Indonesia’s potential next president?

.ON TIKTOK PRABOWO SUBIANTO is a charming grandpa that likes his feline, Bobby, and also dancings horribly. This cuddly on-line persona assists him hoover up millions of likes. Now it has actually gotten him 10s of millions of ballots.

His opponents have urged Indonesians to wait on formal end results, but the end result might be actually unavoidable. Mr Prabowo has actually stated triumph in Indonesia’s presidential political election, held on February 14th. An informal fast count by 4 Indonesian pollsters reckons he won 58% of the ballot, conveniently exceeding the 50% threshold called for to avoid an overflow.

(Main end results will not be posted till March 20th.) The guy who seems likely to lead the planet’s third-biggest democracy is actually dancing around a troubling past– one that few youthful Indonesians either understand or care about. Who is actually Indonesia’s presumptive president-elect and also what was his option to electrical power?