NGANJUK - President Prabowo Subianto emphasized that the government must not allow small people to fight alone against big financiers. The message was delivered when he inaugurated the Marsinah Museum in Nganjuk, East Java, Saturday, May 16, 2026.
Prabowo said he was not anti-market mechanisms. However, he assessed that the free market could be distorted if the state was not present.
"It is not true that I am anti-free market mechanisms. I just understand that the free market can be perverted," said Prabowo.
According to Prabowo, poor people cannot be allowed to compete directly with large capital owners without state protection. Therefore, the government must take a stance.
"Poor people are told to compete with very large financiers, they can't, it's impossible," he said.
Prabowo associated this attitude with Pancasila and Article 33 of the 1945 Constitution. He said that Indonesia's economy must be organized on the basis of kinship.
In his interpretation, the strong must help the weak. The rich must attract the poor. The state, said the President, must not leave all economic affairs to the market.
"The government must be proactive. The government must intervene. The government must defend the poorest people," said Prabowo.
He called the policy of partiality an affirmative action. According to him, if other countries can use this policy to protect certain groups, Indonesia must also dare to use it to defend its own people.
Prabowo also introduced the concept of Indonesia Incorporated. He explained the concept as a family country, where all citizens become shareholders of the nation's wealth.
"All Indonesian people are shareholders in all the wealth of the Indonesian nation," he said.
Prabowo emphasized that leaders and officials are only recipients of mandates. They must not collude to eliminate the people's right to Indonesia's wealth.
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