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Prabowo is in good shape, recovering: Gibran

Speaking to a crowd of reporters who covered his trip to Kemayoran, Central Jakarta on Wednesday, Gibran said that Prabowo is enthusiastic about going back to work after he recovers from the surgery.

News Desk (The Jakarta Post)
Jakarta
Wed, July 3, 2024

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Prabowo is in good shape, recovering: Gibran President-elect Prabowo Subianto (left) and vice president-elect Gibran Rakabuming Raka (right) attend a breakfasting event on March 29, 2024, hosted by the Golkar Party in Jakarta. (Antara/Erlangga Bregas Prakoso)

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ice president-elect Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the eldest son of outgoing President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, assured his supporters on Wednesday that Defense Minister and president-elect Prabowo Subianto is in a healthy condition following leg surgery last week.

Speaking to a crowd of reporters who covered his trip to Kemayoran, Central Jakarta on Wednesday, Gibran said that Prabowo is enthusiastic about going back to work after he recovers from the surgery.

"I just met him yesterday. I went to his house and he was healthy and ready to go back to work after the recovery period. He was energized," Gibran was quoted by Antara as saying.

Late last week, Prabowo underwent surgery on his left leg at the National Defense Central Hospital in Jakarta.

The defense minister and former general suffered for years from a limp attributed to parachuting accidents.

Specifics of the procedure were kept under wraps, but Prabowo, who succeeds President Jokowi in October, described the surgery as "full of risks" in a social media post.

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He has since resumed his duties as defense minister and attended an anniversary celebration for Indonesian police on Monday, Prabowo spokesman Dahnil Anzar Simanjuntak told AFP.

"Thank God he is now very fit. [His leg] has healed and is much better now," Dahnil said.

Pictures shared on both men's official Instagram accounts on Sunday showed Jokowi visiting a bathrobe-clad Prabowo while he was still in the hospital.

"I was aware and understood that the medical procedure I was undergoing was full of risks and my life was at stake," Prabowo wrote in the caption.

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