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Indonesia’s populist president is losing his charm

At the first anniversary of his inauguration two years ago this week, 81% of Indonesians told pollsters that they approved of Prabowo Subianto, a former general who is their eighth president. Now only 45% do. Many Western leaders would kill for that number, but in Indonesia’s deferential culture it marks the steepest fall in support for a president since the return of democracy in 1998. How has it all gone so wrong?