Jakarta | “Unpredictable” is the adjective most often used to describe former military commander Prabowo Subianto, who won Indonesia’s presidential election this week, crowning a remarkable career.

Prabowo was a feared general accused of human rights abuses in dictator Suharto’s regime. But young voters crowded his near-hysterical election victory party on Wednesday night, many sporting shirts with a cartoon version of Prabowo and bearing the word gemoy, meaning cuddly.