Assembly Will Pick New Vice President to Replace Gibran on Dec. 2 - Politics
The assembly will ask President Prabowo Subianto for two nominees and has formed a 36-member team to vet candidates.
- Indonesia's Consultative Assembly will select a new vice president on Dec 2, Speaker Ahmad Muzani announced on Friday, following the resignation of Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the deputy to President Prabowo Subianto.
- Following a Supreme Court ruling that his education credentials were inadequate, Gibran resigned after a month of political pressure, though he maintained the decision was personal and taken in the "greater interest."
- The MPR will request that President Prabowo submit two candidates for the role, with the house forming a team of 36 lawmakers to verify the credentials of potential successors, Muzani said.
- President Prabowo told reporters he accepted the resignation "with a heavy heart" and praised Gibran for acting "for a greater cause," while analysts suggest the departure could stoke political turbulence between Prabowo and Jokowi.
- Despite his resignation, Gibran pledged continued support for the president, stating, "Please, inside or outside government, we still have to support the president," and vowed not to oppose Prabowo's administration from outside.
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The Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) has set Wednesday, December 2, 2026, as the schedule for a plenary session to elect, inaugurate, and ratify Gibran's replacement Vice President.
The departure of Gibran Rakabuming Raka consumes the break between his father, former president Joko Widodo, and Prabowo Subianto, who succeeded him in 2024. After more than two years in power, the latter's popularity rating has never been so low.
Indonesia's upper house to pick new vice president on December 2, its ...
Assembly will pick new vice president to replace Gibran on Dec. 2 - Politics
Gibran's resignation this week, which analysts say could widen the gulf between President Prabowo Subianto and former President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, followed a month of increasing political pressure from lawmakers after Supreme Court ruled that he had inadequate education credentials to run for the job.
R set December 2, 2026 as the schedule for the election and inauguration of the Vice President to replace Gibran Rakabuming Raka.
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