{"id":73677,"date":"2025-08-28T09:23:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T00:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/28\/indonesia-president-prabowo-subianto-military-civilian-affairs"},"modified":"2025-08-28T09:23:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T00:23:45","slug":"in-prabowos-indonesia-the-military-is-quietly-creeping-back-into-civilian-life-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73677","title":{"rendered":"In Prabowo\u2019s Indonesia, the military is quietly creeping back into civilian life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The retired general who is now president has established 100 new army battalions and plans more \u2013 and critics say the move has echoes of the country\u2019s authoritarian past<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA big nation like us,\u201d Indonesia\u2019s President Prabowo Subianto told the rank and file before him, \u201cneeds a strong military. No nation can be independent without having a strong military.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a speech before inaugurating military troops in West Java this month, Prabowo \u2013 the former special forces commandant \u2013 proclaimed that Indonesia must strengthen its defences to protect the nation\u2019s sovereignty and resources.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/28\/indonesia-president-prabowo-subianto-military-civilian-affairs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The retired general who is now president has established 100 new army battalions and plans more \u2013 and critics say the move has echoes of the country\u2019s authoritarian past\u201cA big nation like us,\u201d Indonesia\u2019s President Prabowo Subianto told the rank and fi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4910,"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-73677","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\/73677","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\/4910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73683,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73677\/revisions\/73683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}