JAKARTA - President Prabowo Subianto in the closing part of the 2026 Early Year's Briefing delivered to all members of the Red and White Cabinet at the Garuda Yaksa Training Center, Hambalang, Bogor Regency, West Java, Tuesday, emphasized the coalition of supporting parties. government is strong.
Apart from that, Prabowo continued to joke that the National Awakening Party (PKB) led by Muhaimin Iskandar must be monitored.
"Here our coalition is strong, right? All the party chairmen are here, right? There. Is the PKB chairman there? Oh, like Mr. PKB who must be watched all the time," said Prabowo, closing the briefing session for the Red and White Cabinet at Prabowo's private residence, Padepokan Garuda Yaksa, Hambalang, Tuesday afternoon, quoted by Antara.
PKB, before joining the coalition of supporting parties to the government, had competed with Prabowo during the 2024 presidential election. Prabowo, who was paired with Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka, during the presidential election period faced the pair of Anies Baswedan and Muhaimin Iskandar, then the pair of Ganjar Pranowo and Mahfud MD. The Anies-Muhaimin pair was then carried by PKB, PKS, and NasDem.
However, after the presidential election, which was won by the pair of Prabowo-Gibran, PKB, PKS, and NasDem, expressed their support for the government of President Prabowo. In the Red and White Cabinet line-up, PKB and PKS also got a share of seats, including Muhaimin, who is the Chairman of PKB, currently serving as Coordinating Minister for People's Empowerment, while Prof. Yassierli, who is now serving as Minister of Manpower, is a technocrat proposed by PKS.
At the Garuda Yaksa Training Center, Tuesday, President Prabowo gathered all members of the Red and White Cabinet, presidential special advisers, presidential special staff, and presidential special envoys, then heads of agencies, heads of agencies, the National Police Chief, Attorney General, TNI Commander, and three heads of TNI staff, to attend the retreat which is scheduled to last for a full day.
The initial session of the retreat, which was filled with the 2026 Initial Briefing by President Prabowo, was open, but after that, the next session was closed.
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