Will Indonesia’s Prabowo Freelance His Own Foreign Policy?

New president’s joint development plan with China still raising concerns weeks later

By: B A Hamzah

Three weeks after Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto rang regional and international alarm bells by agreeing to work with Chinese President Xi Jinping to explore mechanisms for joint development in the contested South China Sea, Sugiono, the country’s new foreign minister, was roasted by lawmakers before a December 3 parliamentary comm…