Regarding The Gemoy Cabinet, Pramono Anung: Pak Prabowo The Most Knows The Needs

Pramono Anung/PHOTO: Diah Ayu-VOI

JAKARTA - Jakarta Governor Candidate number 3 Pramono Anung responded to the large number of ministers, deputy ministers, and heads of agencies in the Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka government's Red and White Cabinet.

Pramono emphasized that determining the composition of the cabinet is Prabowo's prerogative as President. This is also regulated in the law.

"So that what Pak Prabowo needs the most. For me, the most important thing is that this is only at the beginning. We just pray for this government to be better, stronger, more stable," said Pramono in Pluit, North Jakarta, Tuesday, October 22.

Pramono emphasized that currently the world's geopolitical conditions are not doing well. Perhaps, Prabowo needs more assistance from his ministers and institutions to maintain political and economic stability in Indonesia.

"The problem at the middleeast, the problem in Ukraine, the issue of China-American rivalry must have an impact sooner or later on our economic and political lives," Pramono explained.

President Prabowo Subianto has appointed ministers and deputy ministers. Prabowo's leadership cabinet is considered the fattest since the New Order to Reform.

A series of inaugurations of 48 state ministers and 56 deputy ministers have been held at the State Palace the day after Prabowo was officially appointed as the eighth President of the Republic of Indonesia, replacing Joko Widodo. So that in total there are 106 ranks of ministers and deputy ministers in the Red and White Cabinet.

In addition to the ranks of ministers, President Prabowo also appointed ministerial-level officials. They are the Attorney General, the Head and Deputy Chief of Presidential Staff, the Head of the State Intelligence Agency (BIN), the Head of the Presidential Communication Office, and the Chairman of the National Economic Council.

Prabowo-Gibran carried out a number of reshuffles, as can be seen from the number of coordinating ministries in the Red and White Cabinet. Prabowo's Cabinet has 14 new ministries out of a total of 48 ministries. This number is more than the Jokowi era which only has 34 ministries.

This also caused the number of ministers in the Red and White Cabinet to swell. Whereas previously, in the era of President Soeharto, who served for 32 years, the highest number of ministers occurred in the 1988-1993 period.

The Construction Cabinet V at that time had a total of 44 ministers. Meanwhile, in the era of Abdurrahman Wahid, Megawati Soekarnoputri, and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono each had 36, 33, and 34 ministers. Jokowi, who led in the last 10 years, was assisted by 34 ministers in each of his periods, the Working Cabinet and the Advanced Indonesia Cabinet.