The Chairman Of The DKI DPRD Called Jokowi's Information Appointing President Heru To Be Acting Governor Of DKI Valid

Chairman of the DKI Jakarta DPRD Prasetyo Edi Marsudi/PHOTO: Diah Ayu-VOI

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo has appointed one name as Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta. The name Jokowi chose to lead Jakarta for the next two years is the Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Heru Budi Hartono. This was decided by Jokowi in a meeting of the Final Assessment Team (TPA) chaired directly by Jokowi at the Merdeka Palace. This information has also been received by the Chairman of the DKI Jakarta DPRD, Prasetyo Edi Marsudi. "God willing (Heru's information to become the Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta) is valid," Prasetyo said when contacted, Friday, October 7. Previously reported, the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) officially sent three names of candidates for the Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta to President Joko Widodo. The names proposed by the Ministry of Home Affairs are similar to those proposed by the DKI Jakarta DPRD previously, namely the Head of the Presidential Secretariat Heru Budi Hartono, the Regional Secretary of DKI Marullah Matali, and the Director General of Politics and General Administration of the Ministry of Home Affairs Bahtiar. "(The names of the candidates for the Acting Governor of Dki) have been submitted on Tuesday. The same names (with the DPRD's proposal)," said Head of the Ministry of Home Affairs Kapuspen Benny Irwan. Benny said that the proposal for three candidates for the Acting Governor of DKI was decided through an internal discussion of the Ministry of Home Affairs with related echelon-echelon. These names were handed over to the State Secretariat and Cabinet Secretary. Furthermore, the three proposed names of the Ministry of Home Affairs and the DKI DPRD will first be discussed in the Final Assessment Team (TPA) which will be led by Jokowi as the Chair of the TPA. "There will be a TPA trial later, the final assessment team led by the president which was attended and attended by several ministers and heads of several related institutions," said Benny. For information, the Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta will start serving on October 17, 2022 until the Governor of DKI who is elected from the 2024 Pilkada is sworn in. Currently, the submission of the candidate for the Acting Governor is still in process. In the process of screening the candidate for Acting Governor of DKI, on Tuesday, September 13, the DKI DPRD has determined three names. This was obtained from the results of a joint leadership meeting (rapimgab) of nine factions of the DKI DPRD. The three names of the candidates for the Acting Governor of DKI decided by the DPRD are the Head of the Presidential Secretariat Heru Budi Hartono, the Regional Secretary of DKI Jakarta Province, Marullah Matali, and the Director General of Polpum, Ministry of Home Affairs, Bahtiar.