“Indisia is the most mconnu of the major countries in the world” – RTS.CH

It is an immense archipelago of more than 17,000 les, located at the curd of the Indopacific Pace, in a major stratic axis between Lasie and Locanie. Indisia is the only country in Southeast Asia that is a member of the G20, and recently BRICS. “It is the most mconnu of the big countries in the world,” said in Gopolite Jean-Luc Maurer, honorary professor at the Graduate Institute in Genve. “With 280 million inhabitants, it is the fourth country in the world behind India, China and the United States. It is the third greatest Dmocracy in the world behind India and the United States. And Ms. If the Dmocracy has been a little weakened in recent times, it is ultimately less badly than in the two major prcites. “, Numrus this specialist of Indonsia.

Elected in the first round with 58.6% of the votes, the new PRS President Indonsien, PRABOWO SUBIANTO, multiplies diplomatic visits. He dj in China, in the United States, in the United Kingdom. In mid-January, during a meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister, Prabowo suffered confirmed his flying to register in the historical policy of non-alignment of his country: “We wish to maintain good relations with all the countries of the world, With all the economic blocks, o We can strengthen the links, in order to contribute to create the conditions likely to appease tensions. “

The new PRS is more active on the international scene than its prdcessor, Joko Widodo. “I think that his project is to do that Indisies boxing in his catgorie. Because until prsent, this immense country is little known on the international scene. So IDE, is to arrive to continue continuing Manage the Chvre and the cabbage-that is to say the Chinese Chvre and the Amican cabbage, since it is taken between these two-Ls-but to have a more active rle “, relives Jean-Luc Maurer.

Threats to Dmocracy?

PRABOWO SUBIANTO also has great ambitions at the cordic and social levels, such as its program to supply free meals for more than 80 million Denfants and pregnant women, in order to combat malnutrition. He also wants his country to reach 8% annual growth, “a difficult objective” according to Jean-Luc Maurer, even if Indonsia has been able to count on growth of approximately 5% for about twenty years.

But the profile of the new PRS Inquired: “It owes its very much intelligent and effective use of social CSIAs, on which he rose to pretend to be a good Grand-PRO that loves cats and that is very peaceful, then that he has a heavy tRS pass “, Pcise Jean-Luc Maurer. “He is a soldier, he made all his career in the weapon. He has a certain moment the head of the para-commandos, the shock troops of the Indonsienne weapon, especially at the time of the invasion of Timor Oriental in 1975, o He committed abuses that revives war crimes, or even crimes against humanit.

Prabowo suffered the military chelons under the dictatorship of the Gnral Suharto, of which he was close, his son -in -law for several years. After the fall of Suharto in 1998, he had left Lindonsie before returning a few years later and embarking on politics.

You can have doubts about the manire of which Prabowo Suubianto will approach the Dmocracy.

“We can have doubts about the manire of which he will tackle the Dmocracy”, is part of Jean-Luc Maurer. “It begins to say that we could simplify the dmocratic life. (…) We speak DJ for example to abolish direct lections for the regional elections by returning to the Antieur system o Governors, mayors, etc. are read by local parliaments and no longer by the population “. In March, Prabowo had estimated during a speech that “the Dmocracy is really very tiring. The dmocracy is very, very dsordonne. Dmocracy is very, trs ratings. And we are still not satisfied with our Dmocracy”.

For Jean-Luc Maurer, who goes to the country rgulire, Indonsienne Dmocracy began “Dcliner” under the PRCDENT Prsident, Joko Widodo: “It takes different forms, for example at the level of the freedom of expression, of the Libert Press, acadmic freedom, or increasingly strong control over Mdias and social CSRs in particular. ” In the classification of the press libert tabli by the organization reporters without frontiers, Indonsia is 111^e Place out of 180 countries observed in 2024, a decrease of three rows since 2023.

Elsa Anghinolfi