Bambang Susantono-Dhony Rahajoe To Be Inaugurated By Jokowi As Head And Deputy Head Of The IKN Authority This Afternoon

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) will inaugurate Bambang Susantono and Dhony Rahajoe as Head and Deputy Head of the National Capital Authority (IKN) Nusantara. The inauguration will be held at the State Palace, Jakarta this afternoon, Thursday, March 10 at 15.00 WIB.

Not only that, Jokowi will also inaugurate the Governor of South Sulawesi Andi Sudirman Sulaiman. He was appointed to replace Nurdin Abdullah who was caught in a corruption case.

"Thursday afternoon at 15.00 WIB at the State Palace, the President will inaugurate Andi Sudirman Sulaiman as Governor of South Sulawesi. Then the position of Head of the IKN Authority is held by Bambang Susantono and Dhony Rahajoe as Deputy Head of the IKN Authority," said Head of the Presidential Secretariat Heru Budi Hartono in a written statement, Thursday, March 10.

Heru said that the inauguration of the Governor of South Sulawesi would begin at 14:45 WIB. Furthermore, at 15.00 WIB, Jokowi will inaugurate Bambang Susantono and Dhony Rahadjoe.

The public can watch this activity on the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube account.

"Of course the inauguration ceremony will be broadcast live streaming by the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube account starting at 2:45 p.m. Western Indonesia Time, starting with the inauguration procession for the Governor of South Sulawesi," said Heru.

For information, Bambang is a former Deputy of Transportation in the United Indonesia Cabinet II for the 2010-2014 period. Not only that, he has also served as Deputy Coordinating Minister for the Economy.

In addition, Bambang is also known as an expert on infrastructure and transportation planning. As previously reported, President Jokowi had planned to inaugurate the Head of the Authority in March. He conveyed this information himself while attending the inauguration of the NasDem Tower in Gondangdia, Menteng, Central Jakarta.

"As soon as possible, maybe next week we will inaugurate," said Jokowi on Tuesday, February 22.

At that time, Jokowi said that the candidate for the head of the IKN Nusantara authority would be filled with someone who was not from a political party. However, the former governor of DKI Jakarta did not clearly mention the names of the candidates for the head of the IKN authority body who were already in his pocket.

"Non-political parties," he said.