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Gibran’s online scandal could drive wedge between Prabowo, Jokowi
The scandal surrounding vice president-elect Gibran Rakabuming Raka over his alleged ownership of a social media account that launched a slanderous attack against president-elect Prabowo Subianto in the past, has the potential to drive a wedge between the incoming leader and Gibran’s father, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.
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President-elect Prabowo Subianto (left) and vice president-elect Gibran Rakabuming Raka walk past a portrait of President Joko “Jokowi“ Widodo, the father of Gibran, during the plenary meeting of the General Elections Commission (KPU) announcing the 2024 presidential election winner in Jakarta on April 24, 2024. (AFP/Adek Berry)
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scandal surrounding vice president-elect Gibran Rakabuming Raka over his alleged ownership of a social media account that launched a slanderous attack against president-elect Prabowo Subianto in the past, has the potential to drive a wedge between the incoming leader and Gibran’s father, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.
A series of offensive comments posted by the user of an old account named Fufufafa on the internet forum Kaskus, a once-popular online venue for Indonesian youth, has been making the rounds on the internet over the past month, with some of its content involving slanders and mockery about Prabowo.
The comments were allegedly written between 2014 and 2019, when Prabowo ran twice against Jokowi in two presidential elections marked by sectarian and polarizing presidential campaigns.
One of the viral posts read: ”Turns out a fired soldier still gets a pension,” which referred to a news story that Prabowo never took his pension money after he left the Army.
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Some netizens claimed that they had found a linkage between the Fufufafa account and Gibran, saying the account used the email address of Gibran’s catering firm–Chili Pari–and a phone number connected to digital wallets under the President’s first son.
Many believe that Fufufafa’s posts were aimed at Prabowo, a former Army general who was dismissed after being accused of involvement in the kidnapping of several student activists in 1998, as well as human rights violations in Papua and East Timor.
