{
  "id": 2665031,
  "title": "Fact-checking the President",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/fact-checking-the-president-2665031",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-20T23:06:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Jakarta Post Academia",
    "slug": "the-jakarta-post-academia",
    "url": "https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/08/21/fact-checking-the-president.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "President Prabowo Subianto's off-script habits have turned his presidential rhetoric into viral punchlines, raising concerns about the nation's credibility. During his State of the Nation Address on August 14, he inaccurately claimed that a woman named Susanah, introduced as proof of his welfare programs' success, was a shallot peeler earning Rp 700,000 per kilogram. Social media quickly debunked this, revealing Susanah was actually a scrap-fabric seamstress earning Rp 700 per day, well below the poverty line. The President failed to clarify this mistake, with only a verbal acknowledgment from his communications agency head, Muhammad Qodari, who dismissed it as a simple slip of the tongue.",
  "summary": "From million-rupiah shallots to unverified nuclear claims, President Prabowo Subianto's off-script habits are turning presidential rhetoric into viral punchlines - and putting the nation’s credibility on the line.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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        "outlet": "The Jakarta Post",
        "title": "Fact-checking the President",
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        "published": "2026-08-20T23:06:06.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}