President B.J. Habibie of Indonesia has replaced another twenty-five of the appointed members in the People's Consultative Assembly -- the country's highest legislative body.

The move comes three days before the assembly meets to set a timetable for elections.

Among those replaced is the son-in-law of former President Suharto, Lieutenant-General Prabowo Subianto, who was dismissed from his army post in August after an inquiry into allegations that members of his special forces unit had abducted and tortured political activists.

Half the one-thousand members of the assembly are appointed and, of those, more than one-hundred-and-sixty have been replaced since President Habibie took over in May.