Hardliner or cute uncle?


Winning team: Prabowo (left) mid-speech during the campaign period with running mate Gibran. Prabowo’s popularity shot up when Gribran, Jokowi’s son, joined his ticket thanks to the current President’s high popularity rating. — Photos: AP

WHO is Prabowo Subianto, the man who claimed victory in Indonesia’s presidential elections on Wednesday after unofficial counts had him winning almost 60% of the vote?

Is he a strongman, three-star general or a conservative man of the people?

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