JAKARTA, Oct 20 — Prabowo Subianto will be sworn in today as president of the world’s third-largest democracy, Indonesia, with the wealthy ex-general accused of rights...
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It comes after a landslide first-round majority win in the February vote that critics said was aided by Widodo, more popularly known as Jokowi. The tight measures were in place with Prabowo expected to be paraded along the streets of Jakarta between the parliament and the palace. According to the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence, or Kontras, 23 activists were kidnapped between 1997 and 1998.Prabowo was discharged from the military over the abductions but denied the allegations and was never charged.
The decision to recruit Gibran as his running mate also proved popular but courted controversy after Widodo’s brother-in-law passed a ruling to lower the age for candidates.Gibran’s popularity is tied to his father, who took Indonesia out of the Covid-19 pandemic relatively unscathed and back to five percent growth.
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