Cabinet Session At IKN, Jokowi: If There Are No Seats Yet, Is It Too Late?

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) responded to the news that he would hold a cabinet meeting in the capital city of Nusantara (IKN), East Kalimantan.

Jokowi assessed that if the meeting facilities were ready, the trial would certainly be possible in the new capital city.

"Yes, when the seats are ready. If the seats don't exist yet, how do you want to sit down? The period of leshehan? The peshehan cabinet session," Jokowi told reporters at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Jakarta, Thursday, July 25.

The President said that he did not want to force the readiness of physical facilities at IKN to be completed quickly.

Because, if rushed he was worried that he would lower the quality of the building and interior of the room. The President reiterated that he would hold a meeting at IKN if the physical facilities for office and holding meetings in the archipelago were really ready.

"Everything, readiness at IKN and we don't want to force it which will reduce the quality of the interior, the quality of the building. No. As long as it's really ready, yes, I will enter," he said.

Meanwhile, when asked further about the topic of the cabinet meeting which will be held at IKN, Jokowi asked the Minister of State Secretary (Mensesneg) Pratikno to ask further questions.