JAKARTA — A desire for more global influence, an “experimental” cabinet and authoritarian tendencies are marking Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto’s assumption of power, the culmination of a striking political rehabilitation.
The defense minister, who turned 73 on Thursday, will be sworn in as the eighth president of the world’s third largest democracy on Sunday. Backed by outgoing President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, he swept to a landslide victory in Febru’s direct presidential election on promises of policy continuity.
