JAKARTA, Oct 19 — Prabowo Subianto will be sworn in Sunday as president of the world's third-largest democracy, Indonesia, with the wealthy ex-general accused of rights abuses taking over eight months after a landslide election win.
JAKARTA, Oct 19 — Prabowo Subianto will be sworn in Sunday as president of the world's third-largest democracy, Indonesia , with the wealthy ex-general accused of rights abuses taking over eight months after a landslide election win.The 73-year-old fiery nationalist will take an oath at parliament before heading to the presidential palace where Joko Widodo will hand over the reins after a decade in power.
DisappearancesNGOs and his former military bosses accuse Prabowo of ordering the abduction of democracy activists at the end of dictator Suharto's rule in the late 1990s.According to the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence, or Kontras, 23 activists were kidnapped between 1997 and 1998.Nine were found alive, one was found dead and 13 are still missing.Prabowo was discharged from the military over the abductions but denied the allegations and was never charged.
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