{"id":70231,"date":"2025-03-20T14:45:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/20\/indonesia-passes-controversial-law-allowing-greater-military-role-in-government"},"modified":"2025-03-20T14:45:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:45:55","slug":"indonesia-passes-controversial-law-allowing-greater-military-role-in-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70231","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia passes controversial law allowing greater military role in government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activists in world\u2019s third-largest democracy warn the legal changes signal a return to military dominance in civilian affairs that characterised Suharto years<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia has ratified controversial changes to its military law allowing armed forces personnel to hold more civilian posts, a move that analysts fear could usher in a resurgence of the military in government affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Activists in the world\u2019s third-largest democracy have criticised the revisions, warning they signal a return to Indonesia\u2019s \u201cNew Order\u201d era, when the country was led by former authoritarian ruler Suharto, who stepped down in 1998.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/20\/indonesia-passes-controversial-law-allowing-greater-military-role-in-government\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists in world\u2019s third-largest democracy warn the legal changes signal a return to military dominance in civilian affairs that characterised Suharto yearsIndonesia has ratified controversial changes to its military law allowing armed forces personn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,156,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70232,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70231\/revisions\/70232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}