Indonesia leader sworn in with largest cabinet in decades

Former subject wide Prabowo Subianto has been sworn successful arsenic Indonesia's president, arsenic helium announced the country's largest furniture since the 1960s.

The 73-year-old, who had been dogged by allegations of quality rights maltreatment for decades, was inagurated connected Sunday arsenic the country's eighth president.

This spells the extremity of an epoch nether former person Joko Widodo, known locally arsenic Jokowi, who presided implicit a decennary of economical maturation and infrastructure development.

Having failed doubly to go president, Prabowo yet clawed his mode to the highest bureau aft winning implicit 58% of the ballot successful February's elections, against 2 rivals.

In his inaguration code connected Sunday, Prabowo vowed to eradicate corruption, poverty, and said helium would beryllium president for each Indonesians.

"We indispensable ever realise that a escaped federation is wherever the radical are free," said the president successful a fiery code that lasted astir an hour.

"They indispensable beryllium freed of fear, poverty, hunger, ignorance, oppression, suffering."

He was sworn successful with his moving mate Gibran Rakabuming Raka, Jokowi's eldest son.

Later connected Sunday, Prabowo named 48 ministers and 58 vice-ministers, compared with 34 ministers and 30 vice-ministers nether Jokowi.

These see the re-appointment of Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati and main economical curate Airlangga Hartarto, a motion of argumentation continuity successful South East Asia's largest economy.

"Challenges, hurdles and threats that Indonesia is facing amid the planetary dynamics and turmoil are not airy [matters]", Prabowo said.

The re-appointments showed Prabowo "does not privation to instrumentality further risks", governmental idiosyncratic Burhanuddin Muhtadi told Reuters.

"That's wherefore helium chose cardinal figures that served nether Jokowi," helium said.

Some observers raised concerns that an enlarged furniture would beryllium inefficient. A "fat cabinet" tin lengthen and complicate bureaucracy, nationalist argumentation student Lina Miftahul Jannah told BBC Indonesian.

Re-organising the antithetic ministries would besides beryllium assets intensive. "That costs a lot, successful the consciousness that it's not conscionable the wealth spent, but the vigor arsenic well," she said.

The furniture volition beryllium sworn successful aboriginal connected Monday.

They volition footwear disconnected the medication with a three-day retreat astatine a subject academy successful cardinal Java.

The ministers and their deputies volition slumber successful tents, and the retreat is aimed astatine bonding the furniture and helping members recognize Prabowo's vision, Reuters cited the migrant extortion curate Abdul Kadir Karding arsenic saying.

Additional reporting by BBC Indonesian