JAKARTA: Indonesia’s president-elect Joko Widodo on Monday announced a high-powered advisory team to handle his transition to power as he prepares to take over the top job in the world’s third-largest democracy later this year.

The five-member “transition office” will lead a team of several advisers who will be responsible for drawing up a policy roadmap to fulfil major campaign promises and address pressing issues facing Southeast Asia’s biggest economy.

“This transition office is needed to prepare the implementation of our vision and programs,” Widodo and vice president-elect Jusuf Kalla said in a statement, adding the team would prioritise universal access to health care and education.

Widodo, commonly known by his nickname Jokowi, beat rival Prabowo Subianto in last month’s presidential election, the closest in the history of the world’s most populous Muslim nation.

Prabowo, an ex-general, has challenged the election result in the Constitutional Court, which will start hearing the case this week and is expected to deliver a verdict by Aug. 21. Its decision will be final with no right of appeal.

Widodo has promised to form a cabinet that is dominated by technocrats in order to overhaul a sleepy bureaucracy and introduce much-needed economic reform to address big fuel subsidies, cooling investment and creaky infrastructure.

But concern persists that the former small-city mayor, who is relatively inexperienced on the national stage, may be beholden to his political party and its chief, former President Megawati Sukarnoputri, for key appointments and policy advice.