The Government Proposes Ambassador Candidates For 24 Countries, Puan: The Names Are Still Secret

Speaker Of The House Of Representatives, Puan Maharani, chaired The DPR/ANTARA/Bagus Plenary Meeting Ahmad Rizaldi

JAKARTA - DPR Speaker Puan Maharani revealed that the government has proposed ambassador candidates for 24 friendly countries, including the United States and the United Nations (UN).

According to the mechanism, Puan said, the government's proposal would be followed up by Commission I of the DPR to hold a fit and proper test for the ambassador candidate.

This was conveyed by Puan regarding a letter sent by President Prabowo Subianto to the DPR regarding the request for consideration of a candidate for ambassador to a friendly country which had just been read out in a plenary meeting of the DPR.

"In accordance with the mechanism in the DPR and it will be discussed later in Commission I. Earlier in the plenary meeting, I conveyed that the names are confidential. Then the discussion is confidential because this is the first and concerns legality and so on," said Puan, Thursday, July 3.

"However, I can convey the proposed state submitted by the government that there are 24 countries," he continued.

Because it is confidential, Puan emphasized that the name of the ambassador candidate for now cannot be disclosed to the public.

"So we will wait for the results of the fit and proper carried out by Commission I. Starting today Commission I will carry out a mechanism in Commission I to carry out a fit and proper property in Commission I," he explained.

The mechanism, among others, is that the Ambassador candidates will carry out a fit and proper test in the DPR RI and be elected based on the approval of Commission I of the DPR. Then the results will be brought to the plenary meeting to be ratified. The DPR plenary approval will then be sent to the government for inauguration.

Puan said there was no special message from the government regarding the candidates to be placed, especially for the United States. Puan considered that the names sent through the Surpres were the best candidates.

"All the names proposed, of course, we respect and respect the names proposed because all the proposed names are the best choices," said Puan.

Puan hopes that the fit and proper test will run smoothly and the elected Ambassador candidate can carry out his duties as well as possible.

"Therefore, we hope that these candidates can represent Indonesia in these countries and can work as well as possible on behalf of Indonesia, and especially in a very uncertain geopolitical and global situation like this," concluded Puan.