3 Prospective Names For Anies Baswedan's Successor Are Determined By The DKI Jakarta DPRD Today

Illustration of the plenary meeting of the DKI Jakarta DPRD. (Antara)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the DKI Jakarta DPRD Prasetyo Edi Marsudi said that his party would hold a joint leadership meeting (rapimgab) of the DKI DPRD factions to discuss and determine the names of the three candidates for Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta today.

"The DPRD will soon prepare three replacement figures for the Governor of DKI Jakarta. God willing, we will discuss the three figures together in a leadership meeting from nine factions in the DKI Jakarta DPRD," Prasetyo said in his statement, Monday, September 12.

This PDIP politician revealed that the name of the candidate for the Acting Governor of DKI to replace Anies Baswedan is expected to be a person who is able to lead Jakarta and understand the existing problems.

Prasetyo said that the rapid mechanism that was final was one of the requirements to uphold the collegial collective principles in the DKI Jakarta DPRD.

"Hopefully this process and mechanism will be able to produce a person with integrity to directly touch the problems experienced by Jakarta residents in the last five years, in the next two very short years," said Prasetyo.

Previously, the Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian had sent a letter to the DKI Jakarta DPRD regarding the proposed name of the candidate for the Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta. In the letter, Tito asked the DKI DPRD to prepare three candidate names to be submitted.

It was stated in the letter that the DKI DPRD had a proposed name until September 16, 2022 or one month before the term of office of DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan ended on October 16, 2022.

"The proposal for the name of the candidate for acting Governor of DKI Jakarta is submitted no later than September 16, 2022, to the President through the Minister of Home Affairs," Tito wrote in a letter.

Later, these three candidates will be juxtaposed with three other names selected by the Ministry of Home Affairs. In the end, one of the names of the candidates will be chosen by President Joko Widodo to serve as Acting Governor of DKI.

Meanwhile, according to the rules, the person appointed as the acting regional head is ASN who occupies the position of echelon I structure with a class of at least IV/C.