Megawati Admits That 2 PDIP Ministers Were Removed From Jokowi's Cabinet

Megawati menoblos di TPS053, Kebagusan, Jakarta Selatan (Foto: Rizky Adytia Pramana)

JAKARTA - PDIP DPP chairman Said Abdullah ensured that PDIP Chairman Megawati Soekarnoputri was relieved that two ministers from PDIP were removed from her position by President Joko Widodo (Jokowi). PDIP will continue to oversee Jokowi's government to completion. According to Said, Megawati has donated Yasonna Laoly and Arifin Tasrif to become cabinet ministers and fully submit to Jokowi to defend or replace the two. "If you want, we will keep all the decisions of the party congress as straight as possible, as straight as possible. If you want, we are actually with the prerogative of the general chairman, right from the beginning the ministers have been withdrawn, but the mothers have not done that. Why? Yes, Mrs. Mega is also the chairperson who is given the prerogative to continue to carry out the congressional mandate," said SaidSaid said Megawati, obeying the constitution and the mandate of the party congress that the determination of the cabinet minister is the prerogative of the president and PDIP is ready to guard Joko Widodo-KH Ma'ruf Amin's government until it is complete, October 20, 20, 2024. Therefore, she said, Megawati and PDIP received the Yasonna and Arifin Tasrif reshuffle. "Let us place that in our national life, within the government administration company, we are governed by the constitution. So when a president does the right to do minister, it is indeed the fully prerogative of the president, both the subjective to the president and the objective conditions judged by the president," said Said. Said, from the beginning, PDIP cadres assigned to serve sincerely, sincerely, and work as strong as they can.

"If in the middle of the road suddenly the president will replace it, then we return it to the President and we fully accept the change," concluded Said. Previously, two ministers from PDIP Yasonna Laoly and Arifin Tasrif were hit by a cabinet reshuffle ahead of the end of the Jokowi administration. Yasonna was replaced by Gerindra politician Andi Supratman Agtas as the Minister of Law and Human Rights and Bahlil Lahadalia became the minister of ESDM, replacing Arifin Tasrif.