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Issue of the day: Kalla envisions future Cabinet
July 21, OnlineJusuf Kalla, running mate of presidential candidate Joko âJokowiâ Widodo, said he wanted professional people from around the country to fill the Cabinet under Jokowi and his administration
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strong>July 21, Online
Jusuf Kalla, running mate of presidential candidate Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo, said he wanted professional people from around the country to fill the Cabinet under Jokowi and his administration.
'Expertise is the main consideration when choosing individuals for ministerial positions. They can have various backgrounds, whether they are non-partisan professionals or political party members,' he said as quoted by kompas.com on Monday.
Besides expertise, Kalla said other major factors that should be considered were track records, integrity and the ability to work with other people.
'We should look up to their fields of work. For example, we have to place non-partisan professionals in the positions of finance minister and state-owned enterprises minister,' he said.
Your comments:
Unfortunately for Indonesia, we have the best resources, but the worst implementations. It's not the model. It's the attitude of the government and the people running it. We have a lot of 'great' plans, but are unable to execute them properly because most of the people in government fail to understand the importance of each and every role. They are more interested in lining their own pockets.
I hope Jokowi-Kalla will monitor the department closely and make it better, getting more qualified staff instead of people who blindly follow the front office. I have dealt with these people constantly and this is why we are what we are. We are dealing with uneducated people with power.
We don't need a complex plan. We need diligent follow-up and control. But the Indonesian attitude is to create a complex plan so they can't do the follow-up and control. As a result everyone suffers!
Edeh
To reduce the unemployment rate, to create more jobs and to draw foreign investments the new government should study the Chinese model of growth and adapt it to Indonesia's diverse population.
The culture of enriching the pockets of the elite should be weeded out in a sustained drive that Jokowi can learn from Singapore's campaigns during the era of Lee Kuan Yew, although I wish to qualify that at present the city-state is cosmopolitan now.
With all its natural and human resources at hand, Indonesia is ready to become ASEAN's next economic dynamo if the new team remembers the Victorian Lord Acton's dictum on political power: Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts most absolutely. National institutions must be filled with people of the highest integrity who have the interests of the masses at heart.
Tant KT
