Prabowo Subianto elected as President of Indonesia

April 26, 2024

Indonesia’s electoral commission formally declared Prabowo Subianto president-elect after the country’s highest court rejected challenges to his landslide victory lodged by two losing presidential candidates.
Subianto, who is currently defense minister, won the election with 58.6% of the votes, or more than 96 million ballots, more than twice the amount received by either of the other two candidates.
Subianto will take office in October, succeeding the popular Joko Widodo, the country’s first president from outside the Jakarta elite.