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Jokowi flies back to Nusantara to spend final weeks as president
Jokowi's office has confirmed that the President has returned to Nusantara and is to hold his final cabinet meeting on Friday at the newly built presidential compound in the country's future capital, where he plans to remain until the day before the formal transition of power on Oct. 20.
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President Joko “Jokowi“ Widodo (third right), accompanied by cabinet members (from right) State Secretary Pratikno, Coordinating Human Development and Culture Minister Muhadjir Effendy and Youth and Sports Minister Dito Ariotedjo, walks down the steps of Garuda Palace as members of this year’s National Flag Raising Team (Paskibraka) stand at attention on Aug. 13, 2024, following their inauguration at the new presidential palace in Nusantara, East Kalimantan. (Antara/Sigid Kurniawan)
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resident Joko “Jokowi” Widodo had flown back to the country’s future capital in the jungles of East Kalimantan on Thursday to spend the remaining few weeks of his second and final term, the Presidential Secretariat confirmed in a statement, noting that the outgoing president was scheduled to hold his last cabinet meeting on Friday.
Accompanying the President on his flight to Kalimantan were State Secretary Minister Pratikno, Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung, Presidential Security Detail commander Maj. Gen. Achiruddin and the Presidential Secretariat’s Protocol, Press and Media Deputy Yusuf Permana.
"President Jokowi will return today to the office in Nusantara,” Yusuf said in the statement released on Thursday. He added that the President would be working in the new city until Oct. 19, the day before he handed over the presidency to his successor Prabowo Subianto.
Presidential spokesperson Hasan Nasbi has previously said major construction on the new presidential palace in Nusantara was finished and ready to accommodate Jokowi until the end of his term in office.
The President had postponed his plans to relocate to Nusantara several times because a number of key infrastructure projects, including the airport, were not ready.
“[Once I move], if I want to go to Papua, it should be [from Nusantara Airport]. If I want to go to East Nusa Tenggara, it should be from Nusantara, and if I want to go to Aceh, it should also be from Nusantara,” Jokowi said late last month.
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