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Never any plan to announce Cabinet members at Priok: Jokowi
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said on Thursday night that he had no plan to announce Cabinet members on Wednesday night at Tanjung Priok Port in North Jakarta
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resident Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said on Thursday night that he had no plan to announce Cabinet members on Wednesday night at Tanjung Priok Port in North Jakarta.
The statement was made in front of the side gate of the Merdeka Palace on Thursday night at 10:15 p.m. before the media, which had been told by the palace to be on standby near the gate at the time.
According to Jokowi, he wanted to wait for the results of the Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) investigation into people on the new candidate list after he had updated it with eight new candidates to replace eight previous names that the KPK had red-flagged.
"Up until now, the KPK has yet to issue the [new] recommendation," said Jokowi, who was accompanied by Vice President Jusuf Kalla.
Jokowi also questioned why journalists had gathered at the port and later reported that he had canceled the announcement.
"Why were you at the Tanjung Priok yesterday [Wednesday]? Who told you to gather there?" he asked.
He appeared reluctantly to answer journalists when asked why palace media affairs staff had taken them there.
Jokowi only replied with another question: "Did you ask the media affairs unit?"
"We [only] prepared the place; why did [you] say it was canceled? We did no such thing," he said. (nfo)
