Indonesia needs a more disciplined government

Indonesia needs a more disciplined government Indonesia needs a more disciplined government

Ben Bland is the director of the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House and the author of books including “Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia.”

Shortly after Prabowo Subianto was inaugurated as Indonesia’s president in October, the former special forces general put ministers through a milit-style boot camp to prepare them for office.