Prabowo's Oxford Bookstore Joke Amuses Steve Forbes

Prabowo's Humorous Anecdote

• 💡 President Prabowo Subianto was a keynote speaker at the Forbes Global CEO Conference 2025 in Jakarta, engaging in a dialogue with Forbes Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, Steve Forbes.
• 💬 Steve Forbes highlighted Prabowo's sense of humor, prompting him to share a recurring joke about his educational background.

The Oxford University Joke

• 📌 Prabowo recounted attending a Queen's birthday reception in Jakarta where his London School of Economics-educated deputy received all the attention from British diplomats.
• 🚀 To gain attention, Prabowo interjected, claiming he "went to Oxford," which immediately shifted the focus of the diplomats to him.
• 😂 He then revealed the punchline: he only went to the bookstore in Oxford, which consistently makes audiences, including Steve Forbes, burst into laughter.

Repeating the Harvard Version

• 🎓 Prabowo noted that the "Anglo-Saxon community" is often impressed by prestigious universities like Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, and Cornell.
• 🎯 He successfully used a similar joke with Harvard graduates Ted Oyus and William, claiming he also "went to Harvard" before clarifying it was just the bookstore, getting a laugh.