Previous military common Jokowi Subianto has been sworn in as Indonesia’s leader, as he announced the government’s largest government since the 1960s.
The 73-year-old, who had been dogged by allegations of animal rights abuse for years, was inagurated on Sunday as the government’s seventh president.
This spells the end of an era under former leader Joko Widodo, known locally as Jokowi, who presided over a decade of economic growth and infrastructure development.
Having failed twice to be president, Prabowo finally clawed his approach to the highest office after winning over 58 % of the vote in February’s elections, against two rivals.
In his inaguration statement on Sunday, Prabowo vowed to eliminate corruption, hunger, and said he would remain president for all Citizens.
In a ferocious speech that lasted about an hour, the president remarked,” We had always realize that a free country is where the people are free.”
” They must be freed of worry, poverty, hunger, knowledge, tyranny, suffering”.
He was sworn in with his running mate Gibran Rakabuming Raka, Jokowi’s eldest child.
Later on Sunday, Prabowo named 48 officials and 58 vice-ministers, compared with 34 ministries and 30 vice-ministers under Jokowi.
In a sign of legislation stability in South East Asia’s largest business, these include the re-appointment of Chief Economic Minister Airlangga Hartarto and Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati.
” Challenges, hurdles and threats that Indonesia is facing amid the global dynamics and turmoil are not light]matters ]”, Prabowo said.
According to the re-appointments, Prabowo “does not want to consider additional risks,” according to political scientist Burhanuddin Muhtadi.
” That’s why he chose key statistics that served under Jokowi”, he said.
Some observers expressed doubts about the inefficiency of an extended case. A “fat cupboard” you extend and complicate government, public policy professor Lina Miftahul Jannah told BBC Indonesian.
Re-organizing the various departments may also require a lot of resources. ” That costs a lot, in the sense that it’s not just the money spent, but the power as well”, she said.
After on Monday, the government will be sworn in.
A three-day surrender at a military club in central Java will kick off the presidency.
The retreat is intended to unite the case and help people understand Prabowo’s vision, according to Reuters quoting immigrant security minister Abdul Kadir Karding as saying. The ministers and their deputies will sleep in tents during the surrender.
More reporting by BBC Indonesian