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That has sparked worries among students and activists that the world&#8217;s third largest democracy could go back to the military-dominated New Order era of authoritarian leader Suharto.<br \/>Titled &#8220;No Longer Just Military: Indonesian-style People&#8217;s Defense,&#8221; the advertisement, published in Kompas newspaper, says the defence ministry&#8217;s policies have expanded and transformed &#8220;into people&#8217;s defence based on prosperity and cross-sector collaboration.&#8221;<br \/>Prabowo has deployed military for various kinds of tasks, from implementing the free school lunches, manufacturing medicines, delivering on agriculture projects, and seizing palm oil plantations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesia&#8217;s defence ministry put out a full-page advertisement in the country&#8217;s largest newspaper on Monday, detailing and defending key non-defence programmes being run by the military, amid criticism of the force&#8217;s increased role under President Prabowo Subianto.Since being elected as president last year, Prabowo has expanded the number of government posts for military personnel and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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