Jakarta Assembly Member Lists Prabowo Government’s Achievements Amid Protests

Jakarta Regional House of Representatives member Ali Lubis has commented on the various demonstrations held during the administration of President Prabowo Subianto and Vice-President Gibran Rakabuming Raka. He said a number of programmes were important in assessing the government’s direction and dynamics.

“After two years, the Prabowo-Gibran administration has been protested against and disrupted, and it turns out there are reasons for that. Of course, all of this has a purpose and a target; the protests and disruptions are not arbitrary,” Ali Lubis said in a statement on Thursday (29 October 2026).

Ali then outlined several reasons for the demonstrations during Prabowo’s administration. He said Prabowo was the first president to provide meals to more than 57 million Indonesians every day through the Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) programme.

“Prabowo is the first Indonesian president to have saved more than Rp52 trillion in state funds and returned 6.2 million hectares of forest land to the state after it was seized from perpetrators of forest and land crimes,” he said, referring to the Forest Area Enforcement Task Force (Satgas PKH).

“Prabowo is the first Indonesian president to have provided free schooling at good-standard schools (Sekolah Rakyat) for 44,000 pupils from underprivileged and poor families,” he added.

He also said Prabowo was the first president to achieve food self-sufficiency, with national rice stocks reaching 4.2 million tonnes over the past two years. According to Ali, Prabowo had also written off bad debts owed by micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, farmers and fishers, with a target value of around Rp14 trillion.

Ali said fishing villages were also being built under Prabowo’s administration. He said 100 had been built since 2025, with a target of 5,000 by 2029.

“Prabowo is the first Indonesian president to provide free health checks to the public, reaching around 106 million people so far,” he said, referring to the Free Health Check programme.

“Prabowo is the first Indonesian president under whom the national football team made history by winning the 2026 FIFA ASEAN Cup [at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium on 5 October 2026],” he added.

Ali said Prabowo was also the first president to have the courage to close 290 state-owned enterprises, saving Rp50 trillion a year. He added that 16,167 schools had been revitalised.

He said Prabowo had also taken on illegal networks in the mining, oil and gas, forestry and palm oil sectors. Prabowo had also set ride-hailing drivers’ commission deductions at 8 per cent, Ali said.

“Prabowo is the first Indonesian president to raise salaries for state-employed teachers by one basic salary, and to provide non-state-employed teachers with an allowance of Rp2 million,” he said.

“Prabowo is the first Indonesian president with the courage to apply Article 33 of the 1945 Constitution as the foundation of the national economy,” he added.

Ali said another reason was that Prabowo was the first president to build homes for the public, with a target of three million. He also said Prabowo had the courage to launch the Strategic Commodities and Minerals Exchange on 1 January 2027.

“There are many other reasons. Given this work, it is entirely understandable that the Prabowo-Gibran administration has been protested against and disrupted over the past two years. We stand with Prabowo,” he said.