Yudhoyono's belief in the arbitrating function of the presidency led him to build an oversized government coalition at the end of his rule, six out o nine parliamentary parties were in Cabinet. Traumatized by his experience as a indonesia in 201 Jokowi ond the Repolarization of Post-Soeharto Polmos minister under Abdurrahman Wahid (999-2001), when he watched the president being impeached by the Legislature, Yudhoyono was obsessed with avoiding a similar fate. A smaller alliance of government parties, he contended, would have risked legislative threats to his rule. For him, the downsides of "promiscuous power-sharing" (namely, protracted policymaking processes and low levels of democratic account were preferable to instability. Similarly, Yudhoyono sought to manage inter-constituency relations by appeasing both sides in a conflict with concessions, rather than by ruling on the basis of constitutionality. In the controversy over the Islamic sect Ahmadiyah, which began in the mid-2000s and stretched to the very end of his presidency, Yudhoyono felt trapped between conservative Muslims on one side and liberal human rights defenders this was not a case that could be eyes, on the other. In Yudhoyono's decided based on the Constitution alone (which guarantees freedom of religion). Instead, presidential action needed to give both groups enough so that they would disturb the peace irrespective of which party had the stronger not legal position.