# Prabowo takes the oath as the eighth president of Indonesia

Date: 2024

## The fact

On 20 October 2024 [Prabowo Subianto](/people/prabowo-subianto) took the presidential oath before the MPR in Jakarta, with Gibran as vice president, under KPU Decree 504/2024. Reuters had previewed the rotation the day before. Meals, TNI law, and China visits are later rows, not this hour’s unique coefficient.

## Context

KPU certification sat as parent. Neighbouring cabinet swearing-in is the next day. He did not sit as the MPR chair.

KPU 20 March is the parent certificate. Cabinet 21 October is a child.

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 [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed 2024 oath after a certified first-round.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 20 October 2024 presidential oath, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later growth coefficient from that Sunday, or that 1998 was thereby closed.

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.

MPR convened. KPU had certified. Jokowi left.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Prabowo takes the oath as the eighth president of Indonesia, not a later speech about Prabowo takes the oath as the eighth president of Indonesia.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Prabowo takes the oath as the eighth president of Indonesia on 2024-10-20 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 Prabowo takes the oath as the eighth president of Indonesia into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He took the oath. MPR convened. KPU had certified. Jokowi left. 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

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience
- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/former-special-forces-commander-prabowo-take-up-indonesian-presidency-2024-10-19/
- https://www.setneg.go.id/baca/index/prabowo_subianto_dan_gibran_rakabuming_resmi_dilantik_sebagai_presiden_dan_wakil_presiden_ri

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/id-prabowo-inauguration-2024