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The three sources said a clash between Purbaya and customs and excise chief Djaka Budhi Utama erupted over the reshuffling of hundreds of officials at the finance ministry, most of them in the tax and customs directorates.

Djaka and the head of the tax department Bimo Wijayanto both objected to the job rotation because they had not agreed to it, the sources said, and Djaka took his complaints directly to Prabowo

One source said Djaka, who according to media reports was found guilty in a military court of kidnapping and forcibly disappearing rights activists in the 1990s, enjoys unusually direct access to Prabowo. Purbaya, according to the same source, needed approval from the president's inner circle to secure meetings.