Prabowo Subianto may have intended it to be just an ice-breaker, but he waded right into a hot button political topic for his hosts with his declaration that a DNA test had shown him to have traces of “Indian ancestry”. In doing so, he also showed a mirror to India.
Predictably, Indian media was bowled over. Subianto’s claim of Indian DNA grabbed the headlines along with his remark that his Indian ancestry was evident whenever he heard a Bollywood tune and broke out in a dance.
