Prabowo Vows to Continue Development Legacy of Predecessors

President Prabowo Subianto has said that Indonesia’s development is a long struggle carried out continuously from one administration to the next. Prabowo said he would continue the development work of previous presidents.

He made the remarks in his state address at the Annual Session of the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) and the Joint Session of the House of Representatives (DPR) and the Regional Representatives Council (DPD), at the parliamentary complex in Senayan, Jakarta, on Friday (14/8/2026). Prabowo said what the current government is doing represents an effort to improve upon programmes that have already been pioneered.

“As I have said many times, development is a long march, a long struggle,” said Prabowo.

“What we can do now, we improve, we refine, we add to, but it was pioneered by the presidents and leaders before me,” he continued.

Prabowo outlined a number of social protection programmes that were initiated under the administration of Indonesia’s sixth president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY), and the seventh president, Joko Widodo (Jokowi).

“Many social protection programmes were pioneered by President SBY and President Jokowi. I am continuing what they started,” he said.

Prabowo said the development Indonesia is experiencing today cannot be separated from the leadership of previous presidents, from President Soekarno, second president Soeharto, third president BJ Habibie, fourth president Abdurrahman Wahid, fifth president Megawati Soekarnoputri, through to SBY and Jokowi.

“Everything we are experiencing is the result of the leadership of Bung Karno, the leadership of Pak Harto, the leadership of Pak Habibie, the leadership of Gus Dur, the leadership of Ibu Megawati. Now we are carrying it forward,” he said.