When Perry Warjiyo quietly resigned as Indonesia's central bank governor on a Monday morning, the rupiah and stock markets flinched — not from the man's departure alone, but from the question his absence raised: who, in the end, controls the institution meant to stand apart from political ambition? In a moment when Parliament has already moved to tighten its grip on independent regulators and President Prabowo's growth agenda presses against the discipline of monetary restraint, the vacancy at Bank Indonesia becomes a referendum on whether technocratic independence can survive the weight of so