A growing push among Indonesian lawmakers to investigate Vice-President Gibran Rakabuming Raka’s academic credentials is raising questions about the influence of his father, former leader Joko Widodo, as signs of a rift within the country’s ruling elite grow.
The challenge comes from within President Prabowo Subianto’s own coalition, underscoring how the political alliance that helped propel him to power in 2024 may be unravelling, analysts have said.
It also follows the arrest of a prominent Widodo ally in a widening wiretapping scandal and an unusually large military mobilisation in Jakarta, developments that have fuelled speculation about the former president’s waning influence.