Indonesia's new president trains cabinet at military-style camp

Indonesia's recently inaugurated President Prabowo Subianto hosted his furniture Friday astatine an service academy retreat successful the mountains wherever ministers dressed successful camouflage fatigues, stayed successful tents and were ordered to march.

The 73-year-old erstwhile wide became person of the world's 4th astir populous federation connected Sunday, pledging to bolster Indonesia's defenses and combat corruption.

Prabowo, accused of rights abuses nether dictator Suharto successful the precocious 1990s, ordered the retreat successful Magelang, located successful the mountains of Central Java, to drill ministers and unite them earlier starring the adjacent government.

"The enactment started with workout together, led by coaches from the subject academy successful Magelang. After a 30-minute exercise, the docket continued with a march training," said statesmanlike spokesperson Hasan Nasbi.

"What's astonishing is erstwhile the furniture members arrived connected the field, President Prabowo Subianto was the archetypal to arrive. President Prabowo was giving an illustration arsenic a disciplined leader."

Images connected societal media showed Prabowo and his ministers dressed successful camouflage subject gear.

"We indispensable determination successful sync with the aforesaid goal. The authorities does not enactment alone, we person to enactment arsenic a team," Prabowo told the ministers, according to authorities quality bureau Antara.

Erick Thohir, the state-owned enterprises curate and erstwhile president of Inter Milan shot club, posted videos from the academy and the subject level that flew the furniture to the area.

"Learning to make contented from the experts," helium wrote connected Instagram, showing himself laughing with different ministers.

Indonesian personage Raffi Ahmad, who was announced arsenic 1 of Prabowo's statesmanlike envoys, posted to 76 cardinal followers that helium was headed to the subject academy wherever the caller president wanted "to make bully teamwork".

Rights advocates person raised concerns that Prabowo and cardinal allies similar Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin -- besides implicated successful rights abuses nether Suharto -- could fortify the relation of the subject successful the secular ideology of astir 280 million.