Prabowo extends grip on Indonesian parliament as parties join his coalition

JAKARTA -- Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto has tightened his grip over the parliament after all but one of the parties with seats in the legislature joined his coalition.

But the newly enlarged group immediately courted controversy, and prompted calls for protests, after it proposed amending a law to defy a Constitutional Court ruling that relaxes the rules on who can nominate candidates in the November elections for regional leaders.