Gerindra Responds To News Of The Addition Of The Ministry To Be Prabowo Hasn't Started Discussing The Cabinet

JAKARTA - The daily chairman of the Gerindra DPP, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, responded to the news that the number of ministerial nomenclatures in the Prabowo-Gibran government would be up to 40.

Dasco emphasized that the elected presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto had never discussed the cabinet, especially the discourse on adding a nomenclature to the ministry for the period 2024-2029.

"The addition of the ministry is a discourse that is developing in the public. We ourselves have never heard Pak Prabowo say anything like that," Dasco said when contacted, Wednesday, May 8.

It is known that the nomenclature of ministries in the Jokowi-Ma'ruf cabinet currently stands at 34.

In detail, 4 coordinating ministers alias Coordinating Minister and 30 field ministers. The addition to 40 occurred due to the current merger or separation of ministries.

According to Dasco, Prabowo has never discussed the proposed addition of the ministry post from 34 to 40. Because he said, the preparation of the cabinet had not yet started.

"The preparation of the cabinet has not yet started. So, of course, what developed should not be considered or made news that it was from Pak Prabowo or from his team," he said.

However, the Deputy Speaker of the DPR welcomes if there are many aspirations that arise in the preparation of the cabinet. Including the issue of adding this ministerial nomenclature.

"That it may be an aspiration, please develop in the community for input. But until now it has never been discussed," said Dasco.