Palace Calls Jokowi Announce Reshuffle Tomorrow, Who Will The Minister Be Replaced?

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) / DOK. Presidential Secretariat

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) is said to be announcing a cabinet reshuffle. Which minister was replaced?

Kasetpres Heru Budi Hartono said confirmation of this reshuffle. It is said that the announcement of the cabinet reshuffle will be made tomorrow, Tuesday, December 22.

"Of course, it will be introduced to the public by the president, whose time is according to the president's time, either morning or afternoon," Heru told reporters.

Currently, there are two vacant seats after two ministers resigned. Both are the Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Edhy Prabowo, who is a suspect in corruption in the export bribery of lobster seeds or fries. Then Social Minister Juliari Peter Batubara who resigned after becoming a suspect in the case of receiving the social assistance fee (bansos) COVID-19.

The Ministry Should Not Become a Political Party 'ATM' When Jokowi Changes Ministers

Jokowi is advised to increase the number of ministers from professional circles, not from political parties. The goal is so that the Forward Indonesia Cabinet which he leads will not be held hostage by political parties.

"If we want to be objective. We will increase the number of ministers from professional circles. So that the cabinet is not held hostage by political parties. And so that ministries do not become" ATMs "for parties," said a political observer from Al Azhar Indonesia University (UAI), Ujang Komarudin told VOI. Monday, December 21st.

But unfortunately, he said, based on previous experience, it was very difficult to add ministers from professional circles. Usually the ones who increase are the ministers from the political parties.

"We still remember in the first volume of Jokowi's cabinet, when Andrinof Chaniago's reshuffle from professionals was thrown out of the cabinet and replaced by party people," he said.