Did Indonesia’s vice-president just resign because he didn’t have a high school diploma?
Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the son of former president Joko Widodo, has faced months of questions about his eligibility for office It has been a turbulent few weeks in Indonesia, with claims the president’s phone was tapped, an uneasy political alliance seemingly in tatters, and now the vice-president resigning after a court ruled he never finished high school. On the face of it, the drama centres on the educational achievements of vice-president Gibran Rakabuming Raka, but there is more to it than that.
Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the son of former president Joko Widodo, has faced months of questions about his eligibility for office
It has been a turbulent few weeks in Indonesia, with claims the president’s phone was tapped, an uneasy political alliance seemingly in tatters, and now the vice-president resigning after a court ruled he never finished high school.
On the face of it, the drama centres on the educational achievements of vice-president Gibran Rakabuming Raka, but there is more to it than that.
Here we explain what happened, why and the deeper political machinations at play in the world’s third-largest democracy.
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- indonesia
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- vice
- diploma
- gibran
- rakabuming
- raka
