On his first state go to to Singapore, Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto was strikingly candid: he had “copied with delight” his neighbour’s method to housing and funding, he stated – presenting town state as a mannequin for his personal authorities’s formidable growth agenda.
However chasing Singapore’s success dangers overlooking the deeper reforms Indonesia should sort out to make such insurance policies work from home, analysts say.
The remarks got here [earlier this week for online as Prabowo met President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and held talks with Prime Minister Lawrence Wong during the two nations’ annual leaders’ retreat.
Prabowo, who spent part of his childhood in Singapore “when it was still a British colony”, spoke openly of his admiration for the city state’s transformation and its founding leadership.
“To be very frank, I’ve always admired the success of Singapore and especially the success of the early leaders of Singapore, their leadership, statesmanship,” he said at a joint press conference with Wong on Monday.
The Indonesian leader has long praised Singapore’s first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew. At his memorial service in 2015, Prabowo said Lee’s greatest legacy was “creating a system that has succeeded in creating a meritocracy and in grooming two or three generations of good leaders”.
