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Prabowo can communicate with animals, once asked ants to leave his food alone (and they did!), according to his assistant

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Coconuts Jakarta - April 26, 2019

"Hard-headed" is one term that people have been using recently to describe Prabowo Subianto, the former general who is still claiming victory in last week's election (despite clear and mounting evidence that he was soundly defeated by President Joko Widodo).

But one of the candidate's closest assistants wants people to know about Prabowo's softer side – the side that can talk to and control animals.

In a post to his personal Instagram account featuring pictures of Prabowo with a horse, a baby calf and his beloved cat Bobby (who has his own Instagram account), the candidate's personal assistant, Rizky Irmansyah, recounted a few stories about the Gerindra chief's unique interactions with animals.

Rizky begins his caption by telling a story about Prabowo arriving at his home in Kertanegara yesterday and being met by Bobby. According to Rizky, Prabowo has to play with Bobby when he arrives at the house because if he doesn't the cat will be so upset that it'll go on a hunger strike the next day.

Rizky then writes, "Pak Prabowo is indeed an animal lover. Maybe you don't know it yet, but Pak Prabowo can communicate with animals."

To illustrate this incredible claim, Rizky relates another anecdote:

Once upon a time at breakfast, the salmon that was being eaten by Pak Prabowo got covered in ants, so reflexively I took the salmon with the intention of replacing it with a new one.

But Pak Prabowo stopped me, then he took the plate of salmon the ants had swarmed onto and said, "Ants, I want to eat, please leave from here", then he put the salmon plate right on the small table next to his chair.

Then what happened?

Less than one minute later, the salmon was clean without any ants on it. After it was clean of ants, Prabowo then ate the salmon.

While we obviously can't speak to the truth of Rizky's antecdote, we would note that Prabowo himself has discussed his power over the insects with the press previously.

For example, in this Sydney Morning Herald profile from 2017 in which Prabowo explains that nobody is allowed to harm any animals in his home, he is quoted as saying, "Even the ants cannot be touched, so I have to negotiate with them. But you believe it or not, they don't bother my food."

The article also mentions: "One of Prabowo's advisers points out that King Solomon, revered in Islam as a prophet, had the ability to communicate with ants."

Aaaanyways, back to Rizky's Instagram post, which includes one more anecdote about Prabowo's favorite horse, "Principe", who will apparently ask Prabowo for apples and carrots every morning and only wants to eat when the Gerindra chief is there.

Rizky concludes by writing:

Friends, there are still many other experiences that I witnessed directly as a private assistant about the closeness of Pak Prabowo and animals, be they cows, goats, eagles, mice or cockroaches. Hehe.

I feel like there is a "wave of goodness" from inside Prabowo, so that these animals feel safe around him.

While animals may feel safe around Prabowo, people such as Chief Security Minister Wiranto say the candidate's "baseless" claims of systemic election fraud are a danger to Indonesia's national security. Perhaps Prabowo would be happier if he could move on from politics and focused on putting his creature communication skills to good use by helping more animals (insert Dr. Doolittle joke here).

Source: https://coconuts.co/jakarta/news/prabowo-can-communicate-with-animals-once-asked-ants-to-leave-his-food-alone-and-they-did-according-to-his-assistant/

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