Indonesia just elected a guy whose track record includes a genocide of various tribes and people, whose military force bully poor villagers and the disadvantaged, who have imprisoned and assassinated dissenting voices, and then some.
Also a literal fascist who flat out said “Indonesians aint built for democracy”
He has been dubbed The Next Soeharto
(Soeharto was Indonesia’s notorious dictator who ran office for 35 years with a suspiciously high 90% approval rate)
The biggest (by landmass and population number) country in SouthEastAsia has just elected a fucking tyrant.
Philippines neighbor, has just elected a tyrant, who also is financially supporting Israel by buying weapons from them (through a mediator).
Possibility of no more free press, more human rights violations, more oppression, and possible brain drain.
Fuck. The region’s fucked.