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National scene: Public wants Cabinet shake-up: Survey
A survey commissioned by a Jakarta-based pollster, the Political Communication (Polcomm) Institute, shows that 61
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survey commissioned by a Jakarta-based pollster, the Political Communication (Polcomm) Institute, shows that 61.8 percent of 1,200 respondents want an immediate reshuffle in President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo's Cabinet as a result of poor performances by several ministries.
Around 33.7 percent of respondents demanded the reshuffle be done in early 2016.
'The demand for the Cabinet reshuffle is mainly due to poor coordination among ministries and between ministries and the President,' Polcomm senior researcher Afdal Makkuraga Putra said on Sunday.
The survey, which was conducted from Nov. 20 to 26 across the country's 34 provinces, suggests that only 20.6 percent of people consider the ministries to coordinate well together.
Also, 37.9 percent of respondents thought that the ministries were yet to realize Nawacita's (the government's nine-priority agenda) aims; 29.1 percent thought they had realized it; and 33 percent did not know.
A political expert at Gadjah Mada University (UGM), Nyarwi Ahmad, said that Jokowi should respond to the public's expectation of a Cabinet reshuffle.
'It is, indeed, still too early to judge a person's working performance, but the President really needs to move fast, otherwise the public's trust in him will plunge,' Nyarwi said.
