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KPK, postelection lobbies delay Jokowi's reshuffle plan
Jokowi only has two more months before beginning his second term as President.
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President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo sits down with the leaders of political parties in the ruling coalition at the Presidential Palace on July 31, 2018. (Press secretary office/-)
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resident Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has abandoned a plan to reshuffle his Cabinet as postelection developments have seen political parties changing their directions and the antigraft body has stood still in its probes into ministers.
The Golkar Party, one of the country’s largest parties which currently holds three ministerial posts in the Cabinet, said it had captured a signal that the President might want to keep his current lineup until his first term ended in October.
The party’s deputy secretary-general, Dave Laksono, said on Tuesday Jokowi might change his plan to do so as next year’s state budget was still in progress at the House of Representatives.
Dave said Jokowi conveyed in a meeting with members of his supporting parties last month that the President needed the current ministers to oversee the process.
“The 2020 state budget deliberation isn’t finished yet. So there is [the President’s] interest to ensure that the budget is in line with his policies. If the ministers are changed, it will be hard for him to control the policies and the program that had been planned,” Dave told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.
Dave said Jokowi only had very little time to do a Cabinet reshuffle after the state budget was deliberated, and it would also be ineffective as he was currently forming the next Cabinet.
“It’s almost impossible. Unless there are some ministers who are unable to complete their term because of something,” he said.
