Prabowo Criticizes Entrepreneurs: Business Permits Granted, Profits Taken Abroad

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - President Prabowo Subianto criticized parties who have obtained various facilities and business permits from the government but have moved their profits abroad.

This comment was made by Prabowo while addressing the granting of business usage rights (HGU), mining permits (IUP), and industrial timber plantation management rights (HTI) to those seeking to manage Indonesia's natural resources.

"They take profits and move them out of Indonesia and stash them elsewhere," Prabowo said during his speech at the opening of the 114th Muhammadiyah Tanwir and Milad in South Sulawesi on Saturday (14/11/2026).

According to Prabowo, Indonesia has been too generous in providing various facilities to those applying for business permits.

He noted that the government has granted significant access to those seeking business permits, with the intention of facilitating ease of application.

"This may show Indonesia's good nature, but perhaps it is also our weakness. We are too kind. We are friendly, right? We have provided facilities, granted HGU, IUP, HTI, what else?" Prabowo stated.

“Being given for dozens of years, if you request an IUP, what’s that? HGU. Yes, requesting HTI, it goes to the regent, the governor, the minister. If you ask, claiming, I am an Indonesian citizen,” he continued.

On this occasion, Prabowo also urged intellectual leaders from Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) to pay attention to this issue.

He believes that these community leaders have a close relationship with the public and can directly witness the wealth of the people being taken abroad.

"You are the leaders of the people. You are closer to the people, you are in the regions, you see with your own eyes our wealth, the wealth of our people being taken out, taken out, taken out, and the results do not remain in Indonesia," he remarked.

Prabowo asserted that his administration continues to strive to rectify the flawed system, so that Indonesia's wealth can be enjoyed by all its citizens.

"What my aides are working on, what we are doing, is how to correct the flawed system, to save the wealth of the Indonesian people so that it can be enjoyed by all Indonesians," Prabowo emphasized.