Minister Of Transportation Found Main Domino With Aziz Wellang Evidence Of Weak Supervision Of The Minister Of Fat Cabinet

Minister of Forestry (Menhut) Raja Juli Antoni. (Photo: Doc. ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The meeting of the Minister of Forestry (Menhut) Raja Juli Antoni playing domino with Aziz Wellang drew public criticism. The reason is, Aziz Wellang is a person who has tried cases of illegal logging in forest areas in Katingan Regency.

Lingkar Madani (Lima) founder Ray Rangkuti assessed that this could be said to be the effect of President Prabowo Subianto's large number of ministers. Thus, supervision maintains ethics in Prabowo's fat cabinet has weakened.

"This incident explains that the large number of state officials who are in the palace circle has made supervision difficult. Lack of control. At the same time, because being recruited based on their preferences is sometimes not verified in its form, character, character, and so on," Ray told VOI, Sunday, September 7th.

Ray emphasized that the ethical blunder of state officials is not the first time. Previously, Mendes PDTT, Minister of MSMEs, and Head of BNPB were also known to use state letterhead for personal purposes.

Meanwhile, in the case of Raja Juli, the confession that he did not know his co-star was understandable but could not just be forgiven and then forgotten.

So, Prabowo had to evaluate his subordinates and give strict rules. "Still, it's a mistake that must be evaluated. Among other things, making rules for taking breaks after state activities," said Ray.

"This includes making rules unable to accept or visit individuals who have links to agencies led outside formal meetings. This is to prevent state officials from being entangled because of ignorance," he continued.

The Minister of Forestry Raja Juli Antoni clarified that he was caught playing domino with Aziz Wellang, who had a case with a legal case of illegal logging.

Raja Juli admitted that on Monday, September 1, he was invited by the Minister of Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (P2MI) Abdul Kadir Karding to come to the South Sulawesi Family Harmony Post (KKSS). Currently, Karding serves as secretary general.

"I discussed with Minister Karding alone in the back room for more than 2 hours. There was no theme of our discussion regarding the illegal logging case at all. Near 24.00 I said goodbye to him," said Raja Juli in his statement.

When he was about to go home, Raja Juli passed through the living room with quite a lot of people. Some of them were playing dominoes. King Juli and Karding were invited to participate in the game.

"After 2 rounds, I said goodbye to Minister Karding and many people in the living room," said Raja Juli.

Raja Juli claimed that while playing dominoes, he claimed he did not know the other two players. There was also no talk about any cases at the time.

"After this news circulated, I just found out that one of the people who took part in the game was Azis Wellang, who was reported as a wild logging player," he said.