JAKARTA — Prabowo Subianto urged Indonesians to be “courageous” to overcome the country’s “obstacles, challenges and threats” but called on people to be polite as they resolve their differences after he was sworn in as the eighth president of Southeast Asia’s largest economy on Sunday.
In an at-times emotional 50-minute speech to more than 1,000 people at Indonesia’s parliament after taking his oath of office alongside Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the 73-year-old former general also promised to work for the interests of the whole nation of 274 million people, not just those who voted for him.
