When Prabowo Subianto, leader of the Great Indonesia Movement party, appeared at a campaign rally in the central Java city of Yogyakarta last week, his articulate stump speech was all about the need for regime change.

Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto, a son-in-law of former dictator Suharto, greets supporters at a campaign rally in Surabaya

With a huge banner behind him exhorting voters to “Restore Indonesia as Asia’s tiger”, he spoke for almost half an hour about how the “little people” had been neglected since the fall of the dictator Suharto in 1998 and that it was time for strong new leadership.