# Jokowi awards Prabowo an honorary four-star rank two weeks after election day Date: 2024 ## The fact On 28 February 2024 President Joko Widodo pinned honorary four-star insignia on Defence Minister Prabowo at TNI headquarters, citing Presidential Decision No. 13/TNI/2024. Prabowo had been dismissed in 1998 amid the abduction file. Rights groups said the honour embarrassed the TNI. ## Context Election-day 14 February sat as parent weather. Neighbouring inauguration is later. He did not write Jokowi’s decision, but he received it in full dress uniform. 1998 dismissal is the parent military file. Inauguration 2024 is a child civilian oath. The President of Indonesia heads the national executive, appoints Cabinet, and is commander-in-chief of the TNI. A former Defense Minister and former Kopassus commander does not write a Komnas HAM report, a Constitutional Court age-rule, or a Chinese SOE nickel smelter by himself. A Komnas HAM finding is not a criminal verdict unless a court so holds. A campaign pledge is not a gazette. ## Evidence and sources Ministry of State Secretariat of Indonesia carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [political polarization](/drivers/political-polarization): a completed post-election rehabilitation honour on a still-contested 1998 file. ## What is established and what is not Established: 28 February 2024 honorary promotion, independently reported. Not established: that 1998 was thereby legally closed, or a unique later TNI-morale coefficient. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. TNI commander proposed. Prabowo received. Rights groups objected.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Jokowi awards Prabowo an honorary four-star rank two weeks after election day, not a later speech about Jokowi awards Prabowo an honorary four-star rank two weeks after election day. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Jokowi awards Prabowo an honorary four-star rank two weeks after election day on 2024-02-28 is not a licence to treat every later Ministry of State Secretariat of Indonesia communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Jokowi awards Prabowo an honorary four-star rank two weeks after election day into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Jokowi awarded. TNI commander proposed. Prabowo received. Rights groups objected. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Prabowo Subianto: https://factrail.ai/people/prabowo-subianto ## Drivers - Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization - Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indonesias-presumed-president-prabowo-awarded-highest-military-honour-2024-02-28/ - https://www.setneg.go.id/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/id-prabowo-honorary-general-2024