Prabowo: Key to a successful nation is courage to acknowledge difficulties and seek solutions

President Prabowo Subianto has emphasised that a country’s success is not determined by its ability to avoid problems, but by its courage to face and resolve every difficulty and challenge. Prabowo stressed the importance of a culture that is open to criticism, input, and collaborative efforts to find solutions. According to him, every difficulty must be faced with courage, not avoided or concealed. Therefore, the government must dare to acknowledge its shortcomings and work hard to find a way out.

“Because I believe that difficulties must be faced. Difficulties must be faced, and we must dare to face difficulties, dare to acknowledge difficulties, and work hard to find solutions to those difficulties,” Prabowo said at the closing of the National Discourse on the Indonesian Science, Technology, and Industry Convention in Jakarta on Sunday. “I have received a list of proposals and a list of questions that were submitted, quite a lot of them. I promise I will look into them one by one,” he continued.

The President said this view was derived from various inputs he has received over time. Prabowo believes that successful organisations and nations are those that can honestly recognise problems and take steps to overcome them. “I got this from a lot of input. Successful organisations, societies, and countries are those that dare to know, to seek out difficulties and shortcomings, and then overcome them,” he said.

Prabowo expressed hope that universities will continue to focus on developing science and technology that can provide real benefits to the people. The President also reminded that the entire education ecosystem, both public and private, ultimately receives support from the state through various forms of subsidies. “Let campuses actively engage in science and technology to benefit the people who finance those campuses, who finance all educational institutions. The private sector plays a very important role, but even the private sector enjoys the people’s money from electricity subsidies, fuel subsidies, with all the efforts we make. So, ladies and gentlemen, this is statecraft,” he said.