Mugiyanto thought he would die after being abducted by soldiers in 1998 when Prabowo Subianto was a powerful special forces commander. Now the former human rights advocate has joined the Indonesian president's cabinet.
Indonesia has sworn in 109 members of President Prabowo Subianto's cabinet — the country's largest in decades.
"If there's any kind of signature move by Prabowo it's turning his victims into his closest allies," said Jacqui Baker, a politics and security expert at Murdoch University's Indo-Pacific Research Centre. Alongside Mugiyanto were 108 other ministers and deputy ministers inaugurated on Monday — one of the largest number in Indonesia's history.University of Melbourne Indonesian studies lecturer Monika Winarnita said the mega cabinet, and the inclusion of figures like Mugiyanto, was reflective of an Indonesian political culture of needing consensus — at the expense of genuine opposition.Murdoch's Dr Baker agreed, stating that Mr Subianto's was a "compromise cabinet".
"We as leaders must also see that there are still many of our brothers and sisters who are below the poverty line," said Mr Subianto at the inauguration of his cabinet.an influential figure in Mr Widodo's administrations "If you look at the last couple of weeks, students have been trying to go on the streets to protest and they were blocked by the security apparatus, they were blocked by intelligence officers.One thing is clear: Indonesia's democrats will not let their hard-won system of checks and balances be dismantled without a fight.
She said there was "uniform agreement" across her contacts in the military that the powerful institution would make a play for greater power during the Prabowo era.
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