Jimly Or Yusril Considered Suitable To Sit At The Coordinating Minister For Political, Legal And Security Affairs

Jimly Asshiddiqie (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has appointed the Minister of Home Affairs (Mendagri) Tito Karnavian as the acting (Plt) Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam). Jokowi confirmed that he would immediately appoint a definitive coordinating minister to replace Mahfud MD who was resigning. Executive Director of Indonesia Political Review, Ujang Komaruddin, called one name that was considered suitable as a definitive replacement for the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs. One name, namely Jimly Asshiddiqie. "It can also be a suitable name, that is appropriate, for example, Prof. Jimly Asshiddiqie and Prof. Yusril Ihza Mahendra. It could be, but it was determined by Jokowi," he said on Sunday, February 4. Even so, Ujang explained, who would be appointed by Jokowi as a coordinating minister as the president's prerogator. The figure could come from a former soldier as before, and also from academics and politicians. "Only Jokowi and God knows who is the substitute for Mahfud MD," said the political science teacher of Al Azhar University Indonesia. President Jokowi said he would immediately appoint a definitive coordinating minister for the replacement Mahfud MD who had resigned himself. Jokowi emphasized that, the Coordinating Minister for Political Affairs who had just come from a non-politic party (parpol). "(His appointment) as soon, from a non (outside political party)," Jokowi told reporters in Bale Rame, Bandung, West Java, quoted from ANTARA at the end of last week. Previously, Jokowi had appointed the Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian as the executor of the task (plt) of the Coordinating Minister for Political Affairs can run smoothly. Based on Presidential Decree No. 20/P of 2024, Tito will serve as the Acting Menko of the Indonesian Cabinet Politics Advanced until the appointment of polhukam determinatives..