Maybe they're not "burning their country to the ground" for the one reason BB keeps repeating.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/18/rvau-m18.html

The Indonesian government of President Prabowo Subianto has begun to implement major budget cuts targeting education, health, infrastructure and the public service. These severe austerity measures have sparked an ongoing student protest movement across the archipelago.

Announced in January, the cost-cutting drive initially totalled $19 billion in cuts, ostensibly to “free up funds” to pay for Prabowo’s free meal program. The program, set to cost $28 billion annually, is aimed at providing free daily meals to 83 million schoolchildren and pregnant mothers. This populist measure was one of the central pillars of Prabowo’s election campaign and a factor in his victory last October, winning 59 percent of the national vote, amid rising poverty and malnutrition.

In order to pay for this election promise, Prabowo has taken an axe to vital public services under the fraudulent pretext of combatting “inefficiency,” seeking to emulate the policies of the Trump administration in the US.

The budgets of several government ministries were slashed. The government claimed the cuts only affect federal workers’ travel, office supplies and electricity use. The cuts, however, are significant: a 70 percent reduction for public works, 52 percent for economic affairs and 40 percent for investment. The measures have also included the scrapping of numerous infrastructure projects and impacted on building maintenance.

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While opposing the austerity measures, students also raised broader economic and social issues: the rising cost of living, skyrocketing food and fuel prices, lack of subsidised cooking gas and growing social inequality. In that sense, the protests, although populated by students, reflected far wider anger over declining living standards.