Law minister refuses to comment on reshuffle issues

Law and Human Rights Minister Patrialis Akbar refuses to comment on the issues surrounding his possible removal from the cabinet.

“That [reshuffle] is not our domain,” Patrialis told reporters at the House of Representatives in Jakarta on Wednesday.

“We always do self-evaluation and do our job as good as possible,” he added.

Patrialis’ ministry is one of the ministries that gained a red-mark for performing poorly based on an evaluation by the Presidential Work Unit for Development Monitoring and Control (UKP4).

Speculations then rife that Patrialis could be kicked out of the cabinet by the end of this month.

Several politicians from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s Democratic Party have also said that a reshuffle could take place by the end of this month.