The High Costs of Prabowo’s Strategy Toward Trump
In this article published by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Indonesia, Ann Marie Murphy asserts the pitfalls of Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto’s efforts to forge close ties with Donald Trump in an attempt to improve Indonesia’s global standing. Dr. Murphy states: “Prabowo’s insight that Trump was the key architect of U.S. foreign policy and needed to be engaged was correct. Prabowo failed, however, to appreciate the utter transactionalism and zero-sum nature of Trump’s worldview that would lead him to seek maximal gains for Washington with little regard for Indonesian interests.”
Ann Marie Murphy is Professor and Director of the Center for Foreign Policy Studies School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University, and is a co-founder of NYSEAN.
