The Great Indonesia Movement Party (GERINDRA) is a right-wing populist political party in Indonesia that was founded on 6 February 2008 by Prabowo Subianto. The party emerged as the result of Prabowo's split from the conservative Golkar party, and it had a party membership of 15,000,000 in support bases such as Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan, and Sulawesi. It sought to create a just and society-based welfare state, return Indonesia to its 1945 constitution, resist Indonesia's transformation into a liberal democracy, support farmers and create jobs to reduce unemployment, develop agriculture, protect forests and seas from exploitation, strengthen and preserve Indonesian culture, simplify the legal system, modernize military equipment, and maintain freedom of religion and women's rights.
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