Prabowo Subianto

Quick Facts

Full Name	Prabowo Subianto
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Oct 17, 1951(1951-10-17)
Age	73
Birthplace	Jakarta
Country	Indonesia
Horoscope	Libra

Prabowo Subianto Biography

Prabowo Subianto is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on October 17, 1951 in Jakarta, Indonesia. This business executive and lieutenant general of the Indonesian Armed Forces ran unsuccessfully for the Indonesian presidency. He is affiliated with the Great Indonesia Movement Party. In 2009, he had run for vice president under the Megawati Sukarnoputri tickets.

He was defeated by former Jakarta Governor Widodo in the 2014 Indonesian presidential elections.

Prabowo has two older sisters, Bintianingsih and Mayrani Ekowati, and one younger brother, Hashim Djojohadikusumo. Hashim’s pribumi conglomerate business interests stretch from Indonesia to Canada and Russia. Between 1966 and 1968, the family lived in London, where Prabowo attended and graduated from The American School in London. Sumitro subsequently encouraged his son to attend military academy. One of Prabowo’s role models was Turkish military figure Ataturk, and according to peers and observers, Prabowo was talented with a passion for stratagems and had an appetite for political power.

Prabowo enrolled in Indonesia’s Military Academy in Magelang in 1970. He graduated in 1974 with others who would gain senior leadership positions such as Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Sumitro Djojohadikusumo was his father and a well-known Indonesian economist. Subianto married Siti Hediati Suharto (the daughter of an ex-indonesian president). They had one son.

Prabowo Subianto Net Worth

Prabowo Subianto is one of the richest Politician from Indonesia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Prabowo Subianto 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After attending the Indonesian Military Academy Magelang, he joined the Kopassus, an elite unit of the Indonesian National Army, and began his military service.

His role in the 1998 Spring riots in Indonesia was widely criticised. He commanded troops that kidnapped and tortured activists.

Prabowo Subianto Djojohadikusumo (born 17 October 1951) is an Indonesian politician, businessman and former Army lieutenant General who is the currently-appointed Minister of Defence of the Republic of Indonesia. He is the son of Sumitro Djojohadikusumo, an Indonesian economist, and Dora Sigar. He is the former husband of Titiek Suharto, the late President Suharto’s second daughter. They were married in 1983 and divorced in 1998 during the Indonesian political crisis.

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Who is Prabowo Subianto Dating?

According to our records, Prabowo Subianto married to Siti Hediati Hariyadi. As of December 1, 2023, Prabowo Subianto’s is not dating anyone.

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Using his connections to President Suharto, Prabowo and his brother worked to silence journalistic and political critics in the 1990s. Hashim unsuccessfully pressured Goenawan Mohamad to sell his outspoken and banned Tempo magazine to him. As lieutenant colonel, Prabowo invited Gus Dur to his battalion headquarters in 1992 and warned him to stick to religion and to stay out of politics, or face unspecified actions if he continued to oppose the President. He later warned the intellectual Nurcholish Madjid (Cak Nur) to resign from the KIPP, the election monitoring unit set up by Goenawan Mohamad, which armed forces commander Feisal Tanjung had denounced as “obviously unconstitutional”.

Facts & Trivia

Prabowo Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Indonesia. Prabowo Subianto celebrates birthday on October 17 of every year.

In 1996, Prabowo led the Mapenduma Operation in the mountainous terrain of Papua, Indonesia. The goal of the operation was the release of 11 scientific researchers, who had been taken hostage by the Free Papua Movement (OPM). The researchers were five Indonesians, four Britons, one Dutchman and his pregnant German wife. Two of the Indonesian male hostages were killed shortly before the rescue operation. The mission involved covert support from British Military Attache and SAS veteran Colonel Ivor Helberg. Following the hostage transfer, Kopassus under Prabowo began a reprisal campaign against villages perceived to support OPM, in one incident at Geselema village attacking the villagers with a military helicopter disguised as a Red Cross helicopter.