Prabowo Claims to Know Masterminds and Funders Behind Recent Demonstrations

President Prabowo Subianto has claimed he knows the parties behind and financing the demonstrations that have recently occurred in several regions. Prabowo even asserted that he knows who paid the masses to take to the streets. The statement was made by Prabowo during his speech at the 17th National Week for Farmers and Fishermen in Gorontalo on Wednesday. “Ladies and gentlemen. Be careful, okay. I give a warning to those people. I know who pays for the demos, I know. But it’s fine, go ahead and demonstrate. When asked, the demonstrators don’t understand. What do you want to demonstrate about? Hmm. We were paid Rp 200,000, they say. But there are. I don’t understand,” Prabowo said. Before mentioning the demonstrations, Prabowo revealed that he knows the parties committing corruption within the government. He also issued a warning to them. “Polite but still thieves, polite but corrupt. Pretending to be rich, pretending to have a lot of money. When the money is stolen from the people. I have been an Indonesian for a long time, I know all of that, ladies and gentlemen. They don’t like Prabowo because Prabowo understands,” he stated. Prabowo then highlighted the attitude of parties he considers unsupportive of the government while Indonesia is competing with other countries. According to him, all elements of the nation should unite and support each other like a football team. “Ladies and gentlemen, if we feel, you know, like we’re in a match. We are supporters, we support one team. Let’s go forward, forward, forward. Our country is competing with many other countries. The nation should be united. If there are shortcomings, our friends, our team is playing, maybe the play isn’t great, we still support them. Later, when the match is over, then we correct it,” he said. “Don’t be shouting ‘wrong, stupid’ while they’re dribbling the ball. While they’re playing in the middle of the field, they get booed. By their own friends, their own team. It’s like we are not proud of what our own nation produces,” he added.