At private dinners with family and confidants, the Indonesian president, Prabowo Subianto, often speaks admiringly of historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi, says Bloomberg. For Prabowo, 73, the similarities with his own biography are striking. At the end of August, simmering tensions in the Southeast Asian country erupted into violence when mobs stormed and looted the homes of four parliamentarians, including that of finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati. Prabowo Subianto: democracy is 'messy and costly'Prabowo, whose own fortune is put at about $127 million, isn’t short of a bob or two and has enjoyed a lifestyle to match. Prabowo was raised in an elite and cosmopolitan environment, notes the New Straits Times: spending time in Switzerland, Singapore, Malaysia and later in London.