Indonesia’s Prabowo slams West for double standards
Indonesia’s leading presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has accused the West of having double standards and losing moral leadership, saying Jakarta has been treated “unfairly” due to protectionist measures imposed on critical minerals, SCMP reported.
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Indonesia’s Prabowo slams West for double standards

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Eurasia 15/11/2023 22:18

Indonesia’s leading presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has accused the West of having double standards and losing moral leadership, saying Jakarta has been treated “unfairly” due to protectionist measures imposed on critical minerals, SCMP reported.

Prabowo, a former special forces commander turned defence minister, said most Indonesians “have sympathy and admiration” for the United States and European Union, but that might be declining due to the latest geopolitical dynamics, the newspaper added.

“I grew up in Europe. I maybe know European history better than Europeans. What I’m afraid of is that Europe will lose [its] moral leadership,” Prabowo said on Monday in a foreign policy talk hosted by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies Indonesia.

“[Based on] the talk within the [Global] South leaders, they say that the West has double standards. The West teaches us democracy, human rights … but the West has different standards and this will be very critical. There’s a shift in the world. Now we don’t really need Europe any more.”

As a nation that “has been looking to the West in the past 50 or 60 years”, Prabowo said there needed to be “a rebalancing”, in which Indonesia had to “learn from other countries in the East such as Japan, [South] Korea, China and India” in aspects including eradicating corruption, improving education, imposing a strong work discipline and displaying national pride.
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