Scheduled For November 14, Commission I Of The House Of Representatives Calls Feasibility Tests And Properity Of Candidates For TNI Commander Can Be Accelerated

Army Chief of Staff (KSAD) General TNI Agus Subiyanto/ANTARA/Genta Tenri Mawangi.

JAKARTA - Commission I of the DPR has scheduled a fit and proper test for the candidate for TNI commander on November 14. It is known that the DPR has received a presidential letter (Surpres) to replace Admiral Yudo Margono with the sole candidate for KSAD General Agus Subiyanto.

"More or less like that (On November 14, ed)," said Chairman of Commission I of the DPR Meutya Hafid to reporters, Wednesday, November 1.

However, Meutya said, the fit and proper test of TNI General Agus Subiyanto could be faster if there was a request from the leadership of the DPR.

"But we will see the progress, if the leadership of the DPR lowers it faster, we can make it faster," said Meutya.

Meutya revealed that Commission I of the DPR is still waiting for an assignment from the leadership of the DPR to carry out a fit and proper test against Agus Subiyanto. Currently, he said, the assignment letter is still in the deliberative body (Bamus) of the DPR RI.

Even so, Meutya ensured that the process of changing the candidate for TNI commander in chief had been completed before November 21.

"The point is that before the 21st, the DPR must be brought to the plenary session," he added.