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www.rsis.edu.sg No.089– 30 October 2024 The authors’ views are their own and do not represent the official position of the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies of the S. [...] Hence, during the presidential campaign season from November 2023 to February 2024, Muhammadiyah lobbied the Prabowo team to include more of its members in his cabinet — particularly in the Ministry of Education, which had several Muhammadiyah ministers in the initial post-Reformasi period. [...] They include Abdul Mu’ti, the organisation’s general secretary, who has been appointed as minister of primary and secondary education; Raja Juli Antoni, a politician from the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) as minister of forestry; and Dahnil Anzar Simanjuntak from Prabowo’s Gerindra Party, who serves as deputy head of the newly created Agency for Hajj and Umrah Affairs. [...] Although he has allocated the most seats to NU figures by virtue of the organisation being the largest in the country, he has also distributed cabinet positions fairly equitably to Muhammadiyah, Tarbiyah-affiliated parties, and other Islamic parties, ensuring a more balanced representation. [...] Secondly, existing ideological, political and personality-based rivalries both within and among the Islamic parties and organisations represented in the cabinet may create difficulties for them to work together to enact and implement the new president’s policy agenda.