Will Jokowi’s keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer strategy work?
they have been bitter rivals. Joko Widodo, a former businessman and mayor popularly known as Jokowi, first defeated Prabowo Subianto, a former general, in a fiercely contested presidential election in 2014. Six months ago, in April, the incumbent Jokowi redoubled the humiliation, besting Mr Prabowo in a re-match election. Just as in 2014, the vanquished general refused to concede defeat, claiming Jokowi had cheated. His enraged supporters rioted in Jakarta in May. Nine people died.
The reasons for Jokowi’s Cheshire-cat grins were less obvious. Mr Prabowo’s appointment is “part of a long tradition in Indonesian politics and society to integrate rather than marginalise one’s opponents,” says Stephen Sherlock of the University of New South Wales in Australia. When Jokowi’s predecessors assembled their “rainbow cabinets”, they included representatives from as many different political parties as they could manage.
Even so, some politicians have expressed concern about the health of the opposition without Gerindra. The only big party left outside the government will be an Islamist outfit, the Prosperous Justice Party, with less than a tenth of the seats in parliament.
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