TIME.CO, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo o Jokowi comment on the possibility reshuffle or a change of cabinet minister. Jokowi did not object when the media asked him if there was a reshuffle plan after the NasDem party announced Anies Baswedan as a presidential candidate.
“The plan is always there,” Jokowi said during the review of the Jakarta Bandung high-speed train project in the Cileunyi district, Bandung Regency, West Java on Thursday, October 13, 2022.
“The implementation will be decided later,” said the former mayor of Solo. However, Jokowi did not elaborate on the plan further to target such ministers and parties.
On October 3, NasDem, which is a government-backed coalition party, officially approved the Anies Baswedan as presidential candidate for the 2024 presidential election. Various reactions subsequently emerged.
On 10 October, the general secretary of the Indonesian Democratic Struggle Party or PDIP Hasto Kristyanto directly criticized NasDem. The PDIP, he said, would not interfere with the sovereignty of other political parties to appoint anyone.
“Only for political parties that bring President Jokowi – Vice President Maruf Amin are bound by political ethics,” Hasto said at the UGM campus in Yogyakarta.
On the same day, a number of people claiming to be Jokowi volunteers suddenly gathered and protested NasDem’s support for Anies. They got together and wrote an open letter to Jokowi at the N Hotel, which is located a few meters in front of the presidential palace complex.
“Brother Anies Baswedan is one of the figures known to the public who is very dense with identity politics,” said Fredi Moses Ulemlem, a defender who is also one of the volunteers present while reading the open letter on Monday, October 10, 2022. .
A number of parties have asked Jokowi to remove the party from the NasDem in the cabinet. There are three NasDem ministers, namely Communications Minister Johnny Gerard Plate, Siti Nurbaya Bakar Forest Minister and Agriculture Minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo.
On October 11, Johnny did not want to take seriously the volunteer movement asking Jokowi to remove the minister NasDem.
“Let’s take care of the substantive things, not the trivial things, the substantive ones. What is it? met at the Presidential Palazzo. .
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