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View all search resultsJakarta is set to deploy more than 1,000 sanitation workers and environment personnel on Oct. 20 for the inauguration of Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka as the country's eighth president and 14th vice president, respectively, likely the last inauguration day it will host as the national capital.
Prabowo is to be escorted to the State Palace by droves of supporters, while his predecessor, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo will be sent off to Halim Perdanakusuma airport where he will fly to Surakarta, Central Java to retire.
The long-awaited meeting between president-elect Prabowo Subianto and Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) matriarch Megawati Soekarnoputri is reportedly to take place before Prabowo takes office on Oct. 20. It is believed that the meeting will result in the PDI-P’s decision whether to stand with or in opposition to the incoming government. The outcome of the meeting could have a significant influence on the country’s political landscape.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and his successor Prabowo Subianto visited the National Police’s Mobile Brigade (Brimob) headquarters in Depok, West Java, on Monday to survey preparations for the Oct. 20 presidential inauguration ceremony, in an apparent show of unity ahead of the power transition.
President-elect Prabowo Subianto has said he is hoping to meet with Megawati Soekarnoputri before his inauguration on Oct. 20, amid signs of thawing relations between the leaders of two parties that were on opposite sides of the February election.
Less than a month before his second and final term comes to an end, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo inaugurated two of the world’s biggest copper and gold smelters on Sept. 23, essentially sealing his legacy in expanding the country’s mineral downstream industry, which has created rifts with major economic powers.
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