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View all search results‘No one’s fighting’: Golkar denies cabinet squabble in Prabowo’s coalition
As cabinet talks are unfolding, observers have pinpointed three posts that would be highly contested by the parties: the positions of environment and forestry, agrarian and spatial planning and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) ministers.
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President-elect Prabowo Subianto (center), accompanied by vice president-elect Gibran Rakabuming Raka (second right), National Mandate Party (PAN) chair Zulkifli Hasan (second left), Golkar Party chair Airlangga Hartarto (right) and Democratic Party chair Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, talks to the press after the General Elections Commission (KPU) officially certified the incumbent defense minister as the winner of the 2024 election, at the poll body's headquarters in Jakarta on April 24, 2024. (Antara/Aprillio Akbar)
Golkar Party chair Airlangga Hartarto denied reports of a fight for cabinet seats between members of president-elect Prabowo Subianto’s coalition, especially his part with the National Mandate Party (PAN).
Prabowo, who will be sworn into office in October to succeed outgoing President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, has begun discussing the makeup of his cabinet with leaders of political parties in his ever-growing coalition.
His coalition, dubbed the Indonesia Onward Coalition (KIM), initially comprised four parties: his own Gerindra Party, the Golkar Party, PAN and the Democratic Party. But the president-elect recently welcomed two new additions to the fold, namely the NasDem Party and the National Awakening Party (PKB), which both backed rival candidate Anies Baswedan in this year’s election.
Reports recently emerged that Golkar’s Airlangga and PAN chair Zulkifli Hasan were contending for the energy and mineral resources ministerial seat.
Airlangga is currently holding the position of coordinating economic minister in Jokowi’s administration, while Zulkifli is the incumbent trade minister. Meanwhile, the energy and mineral resources ministerial spot is filled by technocrat Arifin Tasrif.
But Airlangga denied the rumor of a squabble with PAN. “That’s not [true], nobody is fighting over [cabinet seats],” he said on Saturday, as quoted by tempo.co.
