Jokowi Camps At IKN Nusantara, Palace: No Special Food, Most Indomie

President Joko Widodo (Instagram/@jokowi)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and the first lady, Iriana, will stay overnight in the National Capital Region (IKN) Nusantara, East Kalimantan. No special food is provided, as well as the tents used are not equipped with air conditioners (AC).

This confirmation was conveyed by the Head of the Presidential Secretariat Heru Budi Hartono. Heru said that the tent that Jokowi and Iriana occupied only contained mattresses.

"Yes, stay in a tent, the contents of the tent are only mattresses, there is no air conditioning (AC, ed)," Heru said when confirmed, Monday, March 14.

In addition, there is also no special food provided. Even so, there are instant noodles provided there.

"The food is just cakes and fruit. There is no (special food, red). Mostly Indomie," he said.

President Jokowi has also uploaded a photo of the tent he will be occupying on his official Instagram account, @jokowi. In the photo, the former governor of DKI Jakarta can be seen sitting on a chair in front of a white tent.

"A day at the zero kilometer point of the National Capital of the Archipelago," Jokowi wrote in the upload. As previously reported, President Jokowi will stay overnight at the IKN area with his entourage. A number of preparations have been made, including fogging or smoking as well as spreading work to prevent the entry of reptiles into the tent.

"We have spread salt around the tents, especially around VVIP, and so on to anticipate the presence of reptiles," said Commander of Paspampres Major General TNI Tri Budi Utomo, quoted from the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube.

"And we have prepared anti-snake venom which will be useful. However, hopefully it will not be used and we are all safe," he concluded.