JAKARTA — Indonesia's Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka offered to resign at a meeting on Tuesday, November 10, 2026 with President Prabowo Subianto, a senior official said, as lawmakers consider a probe into whether he was eligible to stand in the 2024 election.
Source: Reuters, Nov 10, 2026
"The vice president expressed his intention to resign in light of the evolving situation," presidential spokesperson Prasetyo Hadi told reporters at a news conference at the presidential palace. Prasetyo denied reports that Prabowo rejected Gibran's request, but stopped short of saying the president had accepted it, Reuters reported.
Source: Reuters, Nov 10, 2026
The two men held more than two hours of talks, according to State Secretariat Minister Prasetyo Hadi, and the president advised Gibran to "continue pursuing legal avenues to defend the validity of his academic documents," the Associated Press reported. No written resignation, effective date or formal vacancy in the vice presidency has been announced.
Source: Associated Press, Nov 10, 2026
Later on Tuesday, Gibran told reporters Prabowo had advised him to "fight" to prove his credentials. He made no mention of discussing his resignation. "The president has become just like a father to me," Gibran said, according to Reuters. Leaving his office, he also said: "I respect all criticism and feedback from the public regarding the developments that are taking place. I do not want the current situation to become a prolonged political controversy," the AP reported.
Source: Reuters / AP, Nov 10, 2026
The court rulings behind the offer
The pressure follows rulings last month by Indonesia's Constitutional Court and Supreme Court that the education documents Gibran submitted did not meet election requirements, Reuters reported. Indonesian reporting on the Supreme Court ruling said the court found the equivalency certificate for his overseas senior-secondary education invalid, and the palace said Gibran had asked for the opportunity to prove the validity of his documents through proceedings at the State Administrative Court (PTUN). Gibran said on Tuesday he would appeal the Supreme Court ruling.
Source: Reuters, Nov 10, 2026; VIVA via Jawawa
Lawmakers in parliament — which is overwhelmingly controlled by Prabowo's "big tent" coalition — are looking into launching an inquiry into Gibran's qualifications, which some analysts believe could be the first step towards his impeachment, Reuters reported. Gibran helped Prabowo win the 2024 election by a huge margin, but some lawmakers are now seeking to investigate whether the insufficient education documents he submitted as a candidate disqualify him as vice president.
Source: Reuters, Nov 10, 2026
What is solid
- Vice President Gibran expressed an intention to resign during a meeting of more than two hours with President Prabowo in Jakarta on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, presidential spokesperson Prasetyo Hadi confirmed at a palace news conference (Reuters; AP).
- Prasetyo denied reports that Prabowo rejected the intention during the meeting, and the palace has not announced any acceptance, written resignation or effective date (Reuters; Indonesian palace reporting).
- Indonesia's Constitutional Court and Supreme Court ruled last month that the education documents Gibran submitted did not meet election requirements, and Gibran said he would appeal the Supreme Court ruling (Reuters).
What is only claimed
- Whether Prabowo will accept, reject or simply let the offer rest is not settled: the palace denied a rejection but did not confirm acceptance, and Gibran's own public remarks on Tuesday spoke only of fighting to prove his credentials, not of resigning.
- Whether the disputed documents actually disqualify Gibran from the vice presidency is a live legal and political question — the subject of his planned appeal, a possible State Administrative Court case and a mooted parliamentary inquiry — not a settled finding.
A widening rift with Jokowi
The meeting came amid a widening political rift between Prabowo and Gibran's influential father, the popular two-term former President Joko Widodo, better known as Jokowi, who defeated Prabowo in the 2014 and 2019 elections before tacitly backing him as his successor. Cracks widened last week following the arrest of three senior police officers, including a Jokowi ally recently moved from the post of national police chief, who are accused of illegal wiretapping, including of Prabowo, Reuters reported. The AP, citing officials, said the resignation offer was apparently not related to that wiretap probe.
Source: Reuters / AP, Nov 10, 2026
Gibran's short political career has been controversial from the start: the Constitutional Court in 2023 cleared him to run despite his not meeting the minimum age requirement of 40, a ruling that sparked public outcry because the court's chief justice was Gibran's uncle, who was later found guilty by an ethics panel of a conflict of interest, Reuters reported. Jokowi loyalists have since been sacked or reassigned in administration shake-ups since 2025, and Prabowo has also been battling a slumped approval rating and investor concern over policymaking, Indonesia's stock market and its currency.
Source: Reuters, Nov 10, 2026
Gibran remains vice president: the palace has announced no acceptance of his offer, no written resignation and no date. The next steps are his appeal against the Supreme Court ruling, the document-validity case he wants heard at the State Administrative Court, and parliament's decision on whether to open an inquiry — a step analysts quoted by Reuters see as a possible first move towards impeachment. Indonesian constitutional reporting notes that a genuine vice-presidential vacancy would be filled through the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) under Article 8 of the 1945 Constitution.