Not To Make A Noise, President Jokowi Asked To Open His Voice About The Reshuffle Discourse

JAKARTA - Starting last week, Reshuffle volume 2 was said to be happening soon. However, until now, news of the inauguration of the minister by President Joko Widodo has never been realized.

Secretary-General of the National Secretariat Jokowi, Dedy Mawardi, advised President Jokowi to immediately open his voice regarding the discourse to reshuffle the cabinet. Whereas there is no reshuffle or re-shake in the Advanced Indonesia cabinet, except only filling the seat of the Minister of Investment, as a new nomenclature.

"To avoid commotion, we suggest that President Jokowi should convey directly to the public that no minister has been reshuffled. "There is an addition of a new minister for the investment ministry", said Dedy in Jakarta, Thursday, April 22.

 

The commotion of the reshuffle issue, continued Dedy, had emerged since the establishment of the Ministry of Investment, as well as the merger of the Ministry of Research and Technology into the Ministry of Education and Culture. Some parties even mentioned several names to fill the seats of the Minister of Investment and the Minister of Education and Culture/Research and Technology, even though the truth of the discourse is not clear.

 

"Apart from that, it also targets several ministers who are deemed worthy of being reshuffled. The discourse of this reshuffle is like a wild issue that continues to attract public attention", said Dedy.

Therefore, Dedy assessed that President Jokowi needs to speak up and provide explanations and affirmations so that after that there will be no more noise like today.

"A direct explanation from the President so that the reshuffle issue will not be as crowded as it is today", he said.

Even if there was a cabinet reshuffle, according to Dedy, it would not change the ministry's performance to fulfill President Jokowi's wishes. This is because it is not only the minister who manages the ministries but the bureaucratic network under the ministers whose vision and mission must be changed so that they are in line with the President's vision and mission.

"Mutually changing ministers is not a solution to the problem, but the reshuffle itself can actually be a problem of poor performance. A concrete example is what happened at the Ministry of Education and Culture in the case of missing KH Hasyim Ashari's name from the History Dictionary", said Dedy. However, added Dedy, Jokowi's National Secretariat would still support it if the President remodeled his cabinet.

 

"It is only recommended that the reshuffle not be carried out every year, except for ministers who fail to realize the President's programs or policies", he said.