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City Council gets new speakers, with some old faces
Jakarta Governor Anies who attended the plenary session expressed the hope that the newly appointed councilors would speed up the deliberation of some pressing draft bylaws.
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Jakarta city councilors are inaugurated for the 2019-2024 term at the City Council building in Central Jakarta on Aug. 26. (kompas.com/Ryana Aryadita Umasugi)
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he Jakarta City Council (DPRD) has named the councilors who will lead the legislative body for the new period with the priority of completing the deliberation of stalled bylaws and policies aimed at easing the persistent woes that blight the city.
Five councilors were selected to lead the city council for the 2019-2024 period on Thursday, with some familiar faces. Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) politician Prasetyo Edi Marsudi remains at the speaker post while the Gerindra Party’s Muhammad Taufik also stays on as deputy speaker. Three new faces joining the speakership are Abdurrahman Suhaimi from the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), Zita Anjani from the National Mandate Party (PAN) and Misan Samsuri from the Democratic Party.
The selection of the speakers came following the inauguration of the new councilors in late August.
Of the five, four previously served as councilors in the last term, while Zita, the daughter of PAN chairman Zulkifli Hasan, is a newcomer having been elected on April 17.
The speakership posts were allocated to the parties on the basis of the respective number of seats they won on the council in the legislative election.
The PDI-P came in first, securing 1.3 million votes, 22.65 percent of the total vote, during the election and thus was entitled to 25 seats in the legislative body.
Longtime allies Gerindra and the PKS --political parties that backed Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan in the 2017 gubernatorial election-- got 19 and 16 seats, respectively.
