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Prabowo presents largest cabinet in decades

Prabowo’s Cabinet is the largest since 1966 when the nation’s first President Sukarno formed an administration of 132 ministers in an extremely tense political situation after a failed 1965 coup. The so-called “Dwikora Cabinet 2” was dismissed a month later.

Yerica Lai (The Jakarta Post)
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Prabowo presents largest cabinet in decades President Prabowo Subianto (center) and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka (center rear) arrive for a group photo with newly appointed cabinet ministers at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on Oct. 21. (Reuters/Willy Kurniawan)

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resident Prabowo Subianto has officially sworn in a new cabinet of more than 100 members, which includes his loyalists and the allies of former president Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, the father of Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka, making it the country’s largest cabinet in decades.

The former defense minister and retired Army general took office on Sunday as the nation’s eighth president, taking the leadership baton from Jokowi, his long-time rival-turned-ally who had tacitly supported his presidential bid in February’s election. 

The new head of state first announced his cabinet lineup on Sunday evening, some 11 hours after the oath-taking ceremony, naming it the Red-and-White cabinet, referring to the colors of the Indonesian flag.

In two back-to-back ceremonies at the Presidential Palace on Monday, Prabowo officially swore in 48 ministers, 56 deputy ministers and five other heads of ministerial-level agencies in the cabinet.

The 109 appointees feature a mix of Prabowo’s loyalists and reappointees from the administration of his predecessor Jokowi, comprising a diverse group of politicians, technocrats, businessmen and former military generals.

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Prabowo reappointed nearly half of Jokowi’s Indonesia Maju (Indonesia Onward) cabinet members, most of whom are economic-related ministers who will continue their role in the new administration, such as Coordinating Economic Minister Airlangga Hartarto, Industry Minister Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Bahlil Lahadalia and State-Owned Enterprises Minister Erick Thohir.

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