Prabowo Reveals the Habit of Getting Up at 3 AM to Monitor Issues: We Are News Junkies

President Prabowo Subianto discussed with several senior journalists, economists, and observers/ANTARA/HO-Government Communication Agency of the Republic of Indonesia.

JAKARTA - President Prabowo Subianto continues to monitor the development of issues and news intensively even until the early hours of the morning. He calls himself a news junkie or news junkies who continue to follow the flow of world information.

"This is, we are news junkies. We have been hit," said Prabowo in the 'President Prabowo Answers' event quoted Friday, March 20.

Prabowo's statement was delivered in response to Rizal Malarangeng, who is a political analyst. Rizal then asked how a leader maintains balance in the midst of fast and stressful global dynamics, including in terms of rest.

"How does the process in the middle of the fast-paced historical focus take a distance and relax? If Churchill, for example, in the middle of the war still maintains his rest time. If there is a little free time, painting and feeding geese. If Ronald Reagan also naps, reads comics, rides a horse. What is a Prabowo like?" asked Rizal.

Prabowo then explained that sleep was important to him. But, he has a flexible rest pattern because he can sleep anywhere and anytime since he was still active as a TNI soldier.

"So maybe this is my knowledge that I can get in the army. So for me, for example, riding a car I can sleep, riding a helicopter I can sleep, riding a plane I can sleep," said the former Danjen Kopassus.

Prabowo also admitted that he often used the short time between activities to rest. For example, when there are two or three meetings that must be attended, Prabowo always takes 10-30 minutes between activities to sleep.

"For me, 15 minutes of charging is like that, let alone 20 minutes. My ideal is actually 30 minutes," he continued.

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Prabowo said that his habit of monitoring news or being a news junkie made Prabowo often wake up early in the morning. He does this to follow global developments through digital platforms.

"So sometimes I sleep at one o'clock at night, but at three o'clock in the morning I wake up again. Why? This is the problem, technology. There is YouTube. We are four hours apart from the Middle East, then it's a few hours with America," he explained.

"So I have to follow what is happening. And that is probably what makes me always a bit up to date," continued Prabowo.

This habit, said Prabowo, is what makes him able to respond quickly to various global developments that have an impact on Indonesia. "Well because I have the habit of waking up at three o'clock, I open YouTube," he said.

"Three o'clock in Singapore, if I'm not mistaken, in Washington DC it's three in the afternoon. So if President Biden just says something, I can read it right away. When I'm nine or ten speeches, I'm the first to give my response to Biden's speech," he concluded.