Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto and U.S. President Donald Trump pose after signing the Agreement on Reciprocal Trade in Washington, D.C., Feb. 19, 2026. -- image via the U.S. Trade Representative on X/public domain By Airlangga Pribadi Kusman and Peiman Salehi More than sixty years ago, Indonesia’s first president, Sukarno, warned that political independence meant little without economic sovereignty. In his famous Trisakti doctrine, announced during the 1964 Independenc