Prabowo Protests to Pramono Over Many Ads at Bundaran HI, Turns Out They Were Installed by Gerindra Cadres

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - President Prabowo Subianto revealed that he previously protested to Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung regarding the numerous advertisements installed in the Hotel Indonesia Roundabout in Jakarta.

Prabowo made this statement while delivering a speech at the 15th Anniversary of the Nasdem Party at Nasdem Tower on Wednesday (11/11/2026).

He confessed that he initially thought the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government had failed to regulate those advertisements.

"Why are there so many ads at Bundaran HI now? I thought, Pramono must not be doing his job. I sent a message to Governor Pramono, 'Mr. Governor, please clean up the ads at Bundaran HI,'" said Prabowo on Wednesday.

However, he was surprised to learn from Pramono that the ads were actually installed by members of the Gerindra Party.

"He (Pramono) said, 'But those were put up by Gerindra cadres.' That's chaotic. It turns out it was the Gerindra members who put them up. I thought, 'No problem, take them down! If necessary, I will take them down myself!'" he recounted.

Prabowo then admitted that he had harbored unfounded suspicions about Pramono.

He believed the advertisements were placed by people from the PDI-P, thinking that Pramono, being affiliated with that party, must be responsible.

"I apologize, I was suuzan, suspicious, thinking that this governor from PDI-P must have these ads put up, it's those red folks placing them. But it turns out it was Gerindra that did it," he remarked.