A wealthy ex-general with ties to both Indonesia’s popular outgoing president and the country's dictatorial past will be inaugurated as its leader Sunday. He has promised to continue his predecessor's widely popular policies,

Retired General Prabowo Subianto will be sworn in on Sunday as the president of Indonesia, the world's third-biggest democracy with the largest economy in Southeast Asia.

Prabowo, who was defence minister under Jokowi, raised eyebrows at the regional security forum, the Shangri-La Dialogue, in June by talking about Indonesian peacekeepers going into Gaza and last year proposing a U.N. referendum on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including a demilitarized zone.

The former general won 96 million votes—the most ever for a single candidate anywhere in recorded history—in a landslide presidential election in February.