Name: Indonesia under the Prabowo Subianto Administration: Year One
Start: 2025-10-14T14:00:00+08:00
End: 2025-10-14T15:30:00+08:00
Location: 30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore, Singapore 119614

Indonesia under the Prabowo Subianto Administration: Year One

About the Seminar
This seminar will assess the performance of President Prabowo Subianto’s government, as its first anniversary in power approaches. It will examine how the government has implemented its key policies and address governance challenges, and will consider the obstacles limiting progress.
How have the Indonesian elite and masses reacted to the president and his recently reshuffled Cabinet? What role do forces outside the ruling coalition play, from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) to elements of civil society? What explains this year of ‘national depression’, as movements like Indonesia Gelap (Dark Indonesia), Kabur Aja Dulu (Escape First), Naikkan Bendera One Piece (Raise the One Piece flag) and the recent protests have emerged?
About the Speaker
Dr Maxwell Lane is a Visiting Senior Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute (ISEAS). He has worked as a journalist, a researcher in the Australian Parliament, a human rights activist, a university lecturer, and teacher. His books include Indonesia Out of Exile: How Pramoedya’s Buru Quartet Killed a Dictatorship (Penguin 2023), Indonesia and Not, Poems and Otherwise: Anecdotes Scattered (Djaman Baroe 2023) and Saudara Berdiri di Pihak Yang Mana? Politik Seni Subversif Rendra (Djaman Baroe 2024). He is the translator of works by Pramoedya Ananta Toer and W.S. Rendra, and has guest lectured at Gadjah Mada University and other universities around the world. He is currently commissioned to write his memoirs for Melbourne University Press.
Dr Yanuar Nugroho is a Visiting Senior Fellow at ISEAS. He was the Deputy Chief of Staff to the President of Indonesia (2015-2019). He is a lecturer at Driyarkara School of Philosophy Jakarta; Honorary Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK; senior advisor at the Centre for Innovation Policy and Governance (CIPG) and Nalar Institute Indonesia; and member, Indonesian Academy of Sciences (AIPI).