Nearly one year after being selected as a Defense Minister by his political rival, previous Army general Prabowo Subianto is leaving for the United States today to meet his United States equivalent Mark Esper; quite a diplomatic achievement after years of being barred entry to the nation. Prabowo had long been prohibited from checking out the US because of allegations of human rights abuses. He was consisted of in a blanket ban on the Army’s Special Forces (Kopassus) for alleged human rights offenses in East Timor when the territory was under Indonesian rule. The minister discussed the five-day check out to the United States starting on Thursday in a video launched by the Gerindra Celebration on Tuesday, confirming that he was accepting the invite since he thought about the United States an essential country. “America is an important country and I was invited, so I must fulfill the invitation,” Prabowo s.
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