Coordinating Minister For Political, Legal And Security Affairs Hadi Tjahjanto Visits The Palace Asking For Restu Sultan HB X

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Hadi Tjahjanto after meeting Sultan HB X at the Kilen Palace, Yogyakarta, Friday night (23/2/2024) (ANTARA/Luqman Hakim)

YOGYAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Marshal TNI (Ret.) Hadi Tjahjanto met with the Governor of the Special Region of Yogyakarta Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X at the Kilen Palace, Yogyakarta, to ask for his blessing in carrying out his new position.

"This is an ordinary friendship. I convey that I have just been inaugurated as Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs and I ask for my blessing from Ngarsa Dalem (Sultan HB X) and we tell a lot, it's a light story," Hadi said as quoted by ANTARA, Friday, February 23.

According to Hadi, sowan to Sultan HB X has become a habit, including when he served as TNI Commander to the Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning.

"When he was Minister of ATR/BPN, he also often met Ngarsa Dalem," he said.

Hadi admitted that he received a special advice from the King of the Yogyakarta Palace regarding his position to maintain a conducive atmosphere after the 2024 election voting process.

"Sultan is very supportive to maintain the conduciveness that is currently running, namely safe and peaceful," he said.

Hadi emphasized that he did not bring a special message from President Joko Widodo, including the discourse on mediation of the president to meet the Chairperson of the PDI-P Megawati Soekarnoputri.

"We just came for friendship and it's like I always do. My tradition is always sowan to Ngarsa Dalem," he said.

Scoping his conversation with the Sultan, Hadi said, he did not leave his main duties as Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs in an effort to maintain security stability in the country.

"I'm just talking normally according to my job to maintain security stability. It's a condition like this that we have to maintain so that the people are calm and that's part of the task that I have to take care of, others don't exist," he said.