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Is Prabowo's popularity waning in Indonesia? - Asia Specific podcast, BBC World Service

It’s a grand promise by Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto - a free meal every day for 83 million school children and pregnant women. Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 https://bbc.in/3VyyriM His capacity to keep that promise will define the legacy of the country’s new leader who pledged to end malnutrition on his presidential campaign trail in 2024. But already there are hints that the programme is breaking apart at the seams, with more than 4000 children having collapsed from food poisoning since January 2025 from the free lunch. What does the success or failure of this ambitious programme say about the politics of Indonesia’s president, and how does it lay bare the problems within South East Asia’s biggest economy? To find out, we talk to the BBC's South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head, who has spent years in Indonesia reporting on the country. We also speak to Bloomberg Opinion’s Asia columnist Karishma Vaswani, who grew up in Indonesia and was the correspondent and editor there for the BBC from 2009 to 2015. 00:00 - Coming up 00:23 - Introduction 01:40 - How Karishma Vaswani got her first journalism job in Jakarta working for Jonathan Head 03:50 - When did the world start taking notice of Indonesia? 04:35 - Why Indonesia, the biggest economy in South East Asia, constantly punches below its weight 06:30 - The history and legacy of Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto 08:30 - How Prabowo Subianto’s determination to become Indonesia’s president paid off 09:00 - The complete reinvention of Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto 09:51 - Why is President Prabowo Subianto appealing to young Indonesians? 10:49 - Is the popularity of Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto waning? 11:45 - The genesis of President Prabowo’s high cost free lunch programme 13:01 - The challenges in executing President Prabowo Subianto’s ambitious free lunch programme 14:53 - How President Prabowo Subianto’s leadership style differs from Indonesia’s former president Joko Widodo 16:51 - How the country reacted when Prabowo named Indonesia’s former president and dictator Suharto a ‘national hero’ 18:47 - How politics in Indonesia works 20:08 - Will Indonesia ever be able to punch above its weight? Watch more episodes of Asia Specific here 👉🏽    • Asia Specific   Instagram: @bbcworldservice Email: [email protected] Presenter: Mariko Oi Producer and Video journalist: Derek Cai Camera: Muhammad Firdaus Bin Mohd Ansary, Rosalehin Bin Rosli, Muhammad Fahmi Bin Jamal Editor: Bill Birtles ---------------- This is the official BBC World Service YouTube channel. If you like what we do, you can also find us here: Instagram 👉🏽   / bbcworldservice   Twitter 👉🏽   / bbcworldservice   Facebook 👉🏽   / bbcworldservice   BBC World Service website 👉🏽 https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio Thanks for watching and subscribing! #BBCWorldService #WorldService #asiaspecific #asiaspecificpodcast #Indonesia #PrabowoSubianto