Several regions in Indonesia are beginning to stabilise after days of deadly protests nationwide. Diponegoro University’s Aniello Iannone shares more on the transition back to normalcy.
00:00Several regions in Indonesia are starting to stabilise following days of nationwide protests against lawmakers' lavish salaries, which have left at least 10 people dead.
00:11Anielo Iannone from Diponegoro University shares more on the transition back to normalcy.
00:17You have now more military in the street and in police, but in this fashion, I mean, in the transition between, in the return to the normality.
00:34I mean, yesterday there was this kind of peace declaration when they also give a flower to the police.
00:43So they try actually, in that aspect, to come back to their normal life before the process.
00:52In light of the unrest, questions remain over how President Prabowo Subianto's popularity and political standing might be affected.
00:59In terms of popularity, especially after this first week, might be kind of up and down.
01:07But I see that Prabowo has managed very, very quickly and fast, especially after the first huge protest,
01:15to speak with the governments, with the ministry, and to stop the law that creates the process, the highlights of the deputies.
01:28And we try to balance in terms of sticking, and also try to, let's say, to control, especially in Dakartha,
01:36the ongoing policy was, like you know, maybe from the video, was, let's say, take away too much violence.
01:46So in that perspective, Prabowo has a very complicated situation.
01:53But now, we are in the transition.
01:57So I don't see any kind of problem in terms of popularity.
02:00In terms of popularity, yes, I mean, it's up and down.
02:02I mean, if you think about, for example, after the election was very, very popular, especially in foreign policy.
02:09I mean, foreign policy was doing domestic because very good propaganda.
02:13While protests escalated following allegations of police brutality,
02:20Anielo does not foresee Parliament acting on any police reforms in the near future.
02:24But I don't think the reform of the criminal code will become on the table in the near future.
02:35I mean, I think they will probably make a proposal, the kind of authority or the reform,
02:42but it will take a little long time now.
02:44Especially now, after the protests, maybe the government must think to postpone the reform, to change the reform.
02:54Yeah, it's a very black box.
02:56We don't know in this kind of thing what's going to happen.
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