Indonesia’s presidential race heats up amid rallies

Bloomberg

Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto called for change in a rally on Sunday, talking down the government’s economic performance as competition heats up ahead of an election next week.
Indonesia goes to the polls on April 17 in a contest that pits the incumbent Joko Widodo against the contender with the economy being the focal point in the race. President Widodo was to speak later in the day at South Tangerang in the province of Banten. Prabowo, a former general who Widodo beat in the 2014 election, told a rally at a stadium
in Jakarta that Indonesia’s “wealth is robbed continuously, taken and sent abroad,” and that the leakage would cost the country $708 billion over the next five years.