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After 100 days in power, President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo and his Cabinet have been given a thumbs-down from politicians, activists and political analysts who say that the current government has yet to enact tough policies on law enforcement, corruption and bureaucratic reform, and that the President remains in thrall to his political benefactors.
Former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party (PD) said it had yet to see any significant progress and changes since Jokowi was sworn in as president on Oct. 20, 2014.
'I don't know what the government has done after 100 days in power. Do you? What I am seeing is that conflict in certain fields is mounting. But let's give Jokowi a chance to solve the problem,' Yudhoyono told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.
Pramono Anung Wibowo and Effendi Simbolon, two senior figures in the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), winner of the 2014 legislative elections and the party that backed Jokowi in the presidential election, admitted that the President and his government had yet to see significant progress because Jokowi had been weak from the outset in choosing his Cabinet.
Your comments:
'I don't know what the government has done after 100 days in power. Do you?'
How shameless, coming from the guy who did nothing for 10 years. At least Jokowi isn't wasting his time away recording junk music albums.
Yuchan
He is starting to make SBY look good. Maybe that's the plan. Go figure.
Abdul Malik
These so-called political parties are infested with rats and snakes from the top down! Jokowi is one of the few people to be elected by the people, yet is criticized for supposedly being 'inactive'.
The other presidents were in office for five or more years and did nothing either. Laws are not enforced, corruption is rampant, fraud is everywhere and everyone expects one man to make a 'huge' change in 100 days?
Come on, give the man a break! He's been set-up by the Red-and-White Coalition and by his own party; even a blind person can see that.
To clean up the infestation that is in Indonesia takes surgical precision, not a butcher.
Indonesia has a sucking chest wound that the previous presidents just covered with a band-aid. Let the doctor do his job properly.
Willo
Jokowi, get out of the shadow of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P). Megawati is doing you more harm than good.
Look back at when you were with Ahok and you didn't give a damn about politics, but about getting things done.
This means reshuffling your ministers to get real deserving appointees with real skills.
The Prabowo camp is in the corner gleefully cataloguing every problem you face; your supposed allies are in it for the power and money and damn the consequences.
In the end they will hang you out to dry for just another millisecond of power.
See what is happening with your SBY-style dawdling on the Budi Gunawan case? The PDI-P, your supposed staunchest supporter, is calling for your impeachment.
JK isn't your friend either, being from the old guard.
Perhaps we are all underestimating your political prowess and this is just a ploy of yours to draw out your enemies before trouncing them all ' but do it fast.
Deddy K
He did say that running Indonesia is the same as running Jakarta, only much bigger.
He's stalling for time while he thinks of a way out but time is something he does not have.
Pauloh
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