Prabowo Subianto, former protection minister, was sworn in because the eighth president of Indonesia on Sunday in Jakarta.
Subianto took his oath on Quran in a ceremony attended by lawmakers and worldwide dignitaries, with hundreds of supporters cheering within the nation’s capital.
Leaders and officers from over 40 international locations, together with the UK, France, the US, Saudi Arabia, Russia, South Korea, China, Australia, and a number of other Southeast Asian nations, attended the oath-taking ceremony.
Subianto has beforehand confronted allegations of human rights abuses throughout Indonesia’s army dictatorship.
Subianto, 73, was a rival of former President Joko Widodo and contested towards him within the 2014 and 2019 presidential elections. Nonetheless, Widodo appointed Subianto as protection minister after his reelection, resulting in an alliance regardless of their political variations.
Throughout his marketing campaign, Subianto promised to proceed Widodo’s insurance policies, equivalent to constructing a brand new capital metropolis and proscribing uncooked materials exports to spice up home trade.
Supported by Widodo, Subianto gained the February presidential election by a big margin.
