About Jokowi Not Sleeping Well At IKN, Gibran: Can You Ask Him Today?

President Joko Widodo and Gibran Rakabuming Raka greet residents in the Merdeka Palace circle, Jakarta, October 2019. (BPMI Setpres)

TANGERANG - Elected Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka spoke up regarding President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) regarding those who have not been able to sleep well in the capital city of Nusantara (IKN), East Kalimantan. Gibran asked Jokowi about having a good sleep or not on this day, Tuesday, July 30, 2024.. "If yesterday I didn't feel well trying to ask him today well, didn't you?," said President Joko Widodo, telling reporters on Gang Asem Street, Babakan, Tangerang District, Tangerang City, Tuesday, July 30. He admitted that he did not know whether his biological father slept well or not at his rest today. "Because he was not at IKN. I also didn't know, I didn't sleep there, right," he said. Previously, President Joko Widodo told his experience staying at the Presidential Office of the Archipelago Capital, East Kalimantan, on Sunday evening July 28, it was not good because it was the first time. "The second last night I slept here. How? Ee... It's not good. I said what it is," said President Jokowi when giving a press statement at the IKN Office of the Central Core Region of East Kalimantan Administration, Monday, July 29. President Jokowi previously said that he would stay at the IKN Presidential Office as preparations to start having an office at IKN on Monday. Different from the previous one who was still staying at the Ministerial Tapak House last June, the President on Sunday night tested to stay at the IKN Presidential Office. "Yes, maybe for the first time it's still not, not yet, yes, it's not good yet," said the Presidential Office. The Presidential Office of IKN can already be occupied, the President said that the progress of the construction carried out by thousands of thousands of workers is still running. On his first day at the IKN, President Jokowi held a inaugural meeting with the IKN Authority and the ranks of the East Kalimantan Regional Leadership Coordination Forum (Forkopimda).

This was conveyed by the Deputy for Protocol, Press and Media of the Presidential Secretariat Yusuf Permana in a statement received at Penajam Paser Utara, East Kalimantan, Monday.