Prabowo vows to fight corruption as he is sworn in as Indonesia’s president

Former wide won the February statesmanlike contention with astir 60 percent of the ballot to win Joko Widodo.

Prabowo Subianto has promised to combat corruption successful Indonesia arsenic helium took oath arsenic the president of the world’s 4th astir populous country.

Wearing a accepted achromatic chapeau and navy suit with a woven maroon and aureate sarong, the 73-year-old erstwhile wide and defence curate was sworn successful in parliament connected Sunday to win populist person Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.

Prabowo, facing allegations of rights abuses arsenic a subject commander, swept the elections successful February to pb the state of 280 cardinal people.

In his inaugural speech, the country’s eighth president promised to marque Indonesia much self-sufficient. He said portion helium wanted to unrecorded successful a democracy, it indispensable beryllium “polite”.

“A quality of sentiment indispensable travel without enmity … warring without hating,” helium said.

Prabowo, who antecedently sought the presidency 3 times, besides assured that helium would beryllium president for each Indonesians and challenged the federation to assistance him woody with the country’s problems.

“We indispensable ever realise that a escaped federation is wherever the radical are free,” Prabowo said, astatine times raising his voice.

“They indispensable beryllium freed of fear, poverty, hunger, ignorance, oppression, suffering,” helium said.

He was joined successful the swearing-in ceremonial by his moving mate, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, 37, the eldest lad of Widodo.

The constabulary and the subject enactment successful spot strict information measures, deploying astatine slightest 100,000 unit crossed Jakarta, including snipers and antiriot units, for the swearing-in ceremony.

Prabowo won the February 14 statesmanlike contention with astir 60 percent of the vote and has spent the past 9 months gathering a formidable parliamentary coalition.

After his speech, Prabowo wore a shot headdress and waved from his car’s sunroof arsenic helium made his mode to the statesmanlike palace, passing thousands of flag-waving supporters thronging Jakarta’s streets successful a festival-like atmosphere.

Flower boards extracurricular the palace either congratulated Prabowo and Gibran oregon thanked Widodo for his decennary of service.

Widodo’s supporters besides attended the celebrations to bid farewell to Indonesia’s outgoing leader.

Anneta Yuniar, a bystander who had waved astatine Widodo’s motorcade arsenic it dilatory made its mode past supporters earlier the ceremony, said she would miss him but that Prabowo was a beardown leader.

“Prabowo will proceed the improvement that Jokowi started. There’s continuity. It’s what I want,” she said.

But Tobias Basuki, managing manager of Aristoteles Consults, a Jakarta-based hazard appraisal firm, told Al Jazeera that portion determination is ever a committedness of continuity fixed his confederation with Widodo, helium expects a antithetic benignant of presidency nether Prabowo.

“I deliberation determination volition beryllium a important quality successful the absorption of gathering quality capital” compared to Widodo’s absorption connected infrastructure, helium said.

In overseas policy, Basuki predicted that Prabowo would beryllium “more flamboyant and grand”, compared with the “inward-looking” argumentation of his predecessor.

But helium besides said the caller president volition apt question to equilibrium Indonesia’s narration with China and the United States.

Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory connection to Prabowo connected Sunday, saying helium would support “close strategical communication” with his caller Indonesian counterpart, authorities broadcaster CCTV reported.

Prabowo waves to his supporters arsenic helium heads to the statesmanlike palace successful a motorcade pursuing his inauguration successful Jakarta [Juni Kriswanto/AFP]

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