The Intercept
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Gen. Prabowo Subianto , a longtime U.S. protégé implicated in Indonesia 's massacres, once mused to me about becoming a fascist dictator.
He was the son-in-law of the late dictator Gen. Suharto who, with the CIA providing a death list of 5,000 names, killed 400,000 to a million Indonesian civilians.
In 2001 , he told me that Indonesia needs “a benign authoritarian regime” and failed twice in presidential elections.
Frida Ghitis: Prabowo worked hand-in-glove with the U.S. as he carried out massacres, torture, and disappearances.
Ghitis says he brought in troops to Indonesia on dozens of occasions, a presence that helped to facilitate at least two covert operations.
She says he is cusp of achieving power from Indonesia ’s current president, Jokowi , with the support he is getting from many because it was a surprise to many because many of his position evolved slowly, Ghitis writes.
President Jokowi 's government organized an event called the Symposium , where survivors of the U.S.-backed 1965 slaughter were given the chance to talk about it publicly.
This event enraged the army, but the president’s groveling failed to calm the army.
When, in 2019 , Prabowo tried the electoral route again, the ISIS -linked groups gave him an effective street organization.
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