Respons Isu Reshuffle, Ketum Projo: This Week No, I Don't Know Next Week

Minister of Communication and Information (Menkominfo) and General Chair of Projo, Budi Arie Setiadi/Nailin-VOI

JAKARTA - Minister of Communication and Information (Menkominfo) as well as Chairman of Projo, Budi Arie Setiadi responded to the issue of a cabinet reshuffle that President Joko Widodo will carry out in the near future. According to him, there will be no cabinet reshuffle that will be carried out this Sunday. However, he did not deny that Jokowi's plan to reshuffle his cabinet next week. "This week there is no reshuffle, I don't know next week," said Budi Arie at the Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Friday, August 16. Previously, information circulated that there were four ministers who would be replaced or subject to Jokowi's reshuffle. The four are Minister of Law and Human Rights (Menkumham) Yasonna Laoly, Minister of Environment and Forestry (LHK) Siti Nurbaya Bakar, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Arifin Tasrif, and Minister of Investment Bahlil Lahadalia. A number of names are also rumored to be replacing the four people. Gerindra Party cadre Supratman Andi Agtas is said to be the Minister of Law and Human Rights replacing the post left by PDI-P cadre Yasonna Laoly.

Meanwhile, Bahlil Lahadalia is said to be serving as Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources replacing Arifin Tasrif. Meanwhile, the Head of the Prabowo-Gibran Winning Team, Roslan P Roeslani, is also rumored to be replacing Bahlil as investment minister. Then PSI Secretary General who is also Deputy Minister of ATR/BPN Raja Juli Antoni is said to be filling the LHK ministerial post replacing NasDem cadre Siti Nurbaya.