The recent protests in Indonesia underscore deep-seated economic frustrations. Despite solid headline GDP growth in recent years, wages have been stagnant and the middle class has been shrinking. President Prabowo’s expensive populist policies, including the free school meal programme, are exacerbating these problems by crowding out infrastructure investment and reversing the progress made by his predecessor.
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