The Law and Human Rights Ministry said here on Friday that it has finalized the draft of the human rights development road map for Indonesia for the next five .
The promotion of Prabowo Subianto to the rank of four-star general has drawn further attention to his controversial military career under Suharto’s New Order regime.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Wednesday awarded an honorary four-star general rank to Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, a former high-ranking army officer who is linked to human rights abuses and who emerged as the apparent winner of the Feb. 14 presidential election. Widodo gave the honorary promotion to Subianto, 72, in front of high-ranking military and police officials in Jakarta. A four-star general is Indonesia's second-highest military rank, usually held by the officer who leads the country’s military.
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