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Text your say: Jokowi rebukes Rizal Ramli
Bilateral ties: Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Rizal Ramli (left) shakes hands with Japanese Ambassador Yasuaki Tanizaki at the latterâs official residence in Jakarta
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Bilateral ties: Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Rizal Ramli (left) shakes hands with Japanese Ambassador Yasuaki Tanizaki at the latterâs official residence in Jakarta. Rizal met the ambassador to enhance the two countriesâ bilateral cooperation, especially in the maritime sector.(Antara/Arif) (left) shakes hands with Japanese Ambassador Yasuaki Tanizaki at the latterâs official residence in Jakarta. Rizal met the ambassador to enhance the two countriesâ bilateral cooperation, especially in the maritime sector.(Antara/Arif)
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span class="inline inline-center">Bilateral ties: Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Rizal Ramli (left) shakes hands with Japanese Ambassador Yasuaki Tanizaki at the latter's official residence in Jakarta. Rizal met the ambassador to enhance the two countries' bilateral cooperation, especially in the maritime sector.(Antara/Arif)
Your comments about the rare rebuke by President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo of newly appointed Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Rizal Ramli who criticized Vice President Jusuf Kalla recently:
Someone who is clever is nothing when he is not a good member of a team, let alone underestimates other members!
Eddy Arjuna Zainy
President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo doesn't have to rebuke Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Rizal Ramli just because he's telling the truth. The President has to rebuke the other 'yes-men' ministers for having no courage to tell the truth.
E. Nurdin
If you do not approve of a team, don't join it. Rizal should have declined the offer for a ministerial post.
If you join a team, play by the rules, or leave it.
Hadi Durabaya.
The rebuke is timely and necessary. However, I admire Rizal's spontaneous crack of criticism, which I like to believe was but a spontaneous expression of enthusiasm.
There is some weight in what Rizal was trying to express; yet it could have been better endorsed to the right minister(s).
I really hope other ministers are that enthusiastic, if not better.
I sympathize with Vice President Jusuf Kalla in the incident and admire him for his calm reaction, showing not only his seniority but also his personality as a wiser figure in the government.
Long live Jokowi!
Moeljono Adikoesoemo
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