It Was Revealed, Luhut Served As Chair Of The Apdesi Board Of Trustees Who Inspired Jokowi For 3 Periods

Luhut Pandjaitan/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - The Association of Indonesian Village Governments (Apdesi) led by Surta Wijaya became a conversation after shouting support for President Joko Widodo to return to lead Indonesia for a third term.

After a row about 3 periods, another Apdesi appeared, led by Arifin Abdul Majid.

Recently, what has been highlighted the most is the role of the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment who accompanied Jokowi during the Apdesi Silatnas event at Istora Senayan. Luhut is called the prime minister because he takes all the main tasks and functions.

Luhut's role was finally revealed. Apdesi, led by Suta Wijaya, spoke about Luhut's position in his organization. Luhut is said to be the chairman of the Advisory Board at Apdesi.

This was conveyed by the Chairman of the Organizational Advisory Council (MPO) Apdesi Muhammad Asri Anas. He admitted that he often met with Luhut.

"Of course his position is like that, it seems that you have heard that Mr. Luhut is the chairman of the Advisory Board," Asri Anas told reporters, Thursday, March 31. Anas revealed, intense communication was carried out to ask for directions from Luhut. "Intense and official. Please check, our hearing letter is official. If you want to meet him, our hearing letter is official. others," he said. Asri explained, Luhut was directly elected as chairman of the board of directors by the administrators. In addition, he said, as much as 50 percent of the Apdesi program is under Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut. "Development in villages is mostly development that deals with roads, bridges, clean water, and so on. For example, my friends have initiated tourist villages throughout Indonesia. , even 2,500 new tourist villages with Pak Sandiaga Uno, then we created a program for 7,000 coastal villages in Indonesia," he said. "All I can say is that all of them are under Pak Luhut. So 50 percent of our programs are there," he continued. Separately, the Secretary General of the Apdesi Asep Anwar Sadat said that Luhut officially became the Apdesi supervisory board six months ago when Surta Wijaya became the new general chairman. Surta," he said.

Previously, PKS highlighted the presence of the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Menko Marves) Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan at the Indonesian Village Government Association (Apdesi) gathering event.

Member of Commission II of the DPR RI, the PKS faction, Mardani Ali Sera, questioned Luhut's presence

Mardani considered that the gathering of village heads should have been attended by the relevant ministries, namely the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud Md and the Minister of Home Affairs (Mendagri) Tito Karnavian. nothing," Mardani Ali Sera told reporters, Wednesday, March 30. For information, Apdesi was formed to accommodate the aspirations of the Village Head and village officials, both active and retired. Apdesi partners with the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Villages, Development of Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration (Kemendes PDTT).

The Ministry of Home Affairs is under the responsibility of the Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal and Security Affairs. While the Kemendes PDTT is under the responsibility of the Coordinating Ministry for PMK. He was surprised because the event was actually attended by other ministries. He considered that Luhut's presence in the context of the event was unwise and disproportionate. "In fact, it is another ministry. This is unwise and disproportionate," he said.