A New Leader in Indonesia: What are the Implications for the United States?

Prabowo Subianto will take the helm on October 20 as Indonesia’s president after his big election win earlier this year at a time of both national optimism and global crises. The previous president Joko Widodo delivered strong economic growth, and Indonesia is projected to overtake Germany and the U.K. to become the world’s seventh largest economy by 2030. However, the growing U.S.-China rivalry continues to roil the region including the South China Sea. Washington would like to enlist Jakarta in its self-proclaimed global battle against autocracies. The escalating crisis in the Middle East is another stressor – Indonesia, along with many Global South states, has taken a different approach from the United States toward the ongoing war.

How could U.S.-Indonesia relations shift with Prabowo as president? How will Jakarta and ASEAN respond to any further escalations in Taiwan or the South China Sea? What does Indonesia’s rise mean for the significance of the Global South in U.S. foreign policy?
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Marc Mealy

Marc Mealy is the senior vice president-policy at the U.S.-ASEAN Business Council. He manages the Council’s information products, coordinates advocacy efforts, and serves as the in-house lead on international trade policy. He joined the Council in 2003 as the senior director for Malaysia, Philippines and Brunei Affairs. 

Dewi Fortuna Anwar

Dewi Fortuna Anwar is a research professor at the Research Center for Politics-National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN). Dewi is also the chairman of the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights at the Habibie Center. From October 2010 to May 2015, Dewi served as the Deputy Secretary for Political Affairs in Indonesia.

Ambassador Piper Campbell

Ambassador Piper Campbell is a professor of practice at American University’s School of International Service (SIS). She chairs SIS’s Department of Foreign Policy and Global Security, as well as the ASEAN and Indo-Pacific Studies Initiative (AIPSI). She also regularly coordinates classes for the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute. 

Sarang Shidore (Moderator)

Sarang Shidore is director of the Global South program at the Quincy Institute and a senior non-resident fellow at the Council on Strategic Risks. His areas of research and analysis are geopolitical risk, grand strategy, and energy/climate security, with a special emphasis on Asia and the Global South. 
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