Indonesia President Prabowo Fired Indrawati After She Offered to Resign Twice

Over the last weekend in August, after her house was ransacked by looters, Indonesia’s then-Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati traveled to President Prabowo Subianto’s country estate in the Hambalang hills in West Java. She planned to resign.

The country had just been rattled by its worst unrest in years. This was at least her second attempt to quit, after one in March amid a market meltdown, partly driven by rumors of her departure.