Vice President Ma'ruf Amin Offers Criteria In Lieu Of Anies Baswedan In DKI Jakarta, What's That?

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin accompanied by Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Muhadjir Effendy/VIA BETWEEN

JAKARTA - Vice President Ma'ruf Amin revealed the criteria for the right figure to replace Anies Baswedan as Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta. The most important thing is to understand the condition of the capital city. "Of course the government will choose people who can understand Jakarta, people who have been in Jakarta, and know exactly about Jakarta," said Vice President Ma'ruf Amin in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Antara, Thursday, September 22. It is known that the term of office of the Governor of DKI Jakarta, Anies Baswedan, will end on October 16, 2022. "We'll see who it is, we hope this is to continue until 2024, of course, not people who don't know Jakarta," said the Vice President. On September 13, 2022, the DKI Jakarta DPRD agreed on three names to be proposed to the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) as candidates for the DKI Jakarta Acting General, namely the Head of the Presidential Secretariat Heru Budi Hartono who has also served as Mayor of North Jakarta, Regional Secretary of DKI Jakarta Province Marullah Matali and Director General of Politics and General Administration of the Ministry of Home Affairs Bahtiar Bahharuddin. "If you don't know, Jakarta will be difficult, and the process will be as usual through determination," added the Vice President. Vice President Ma'ruf said the process of determining the Acting Governor of Jakarta would be the same as the determination of the Acting Governor of other regions. "I think there are rules like other areas, like yesterday there was Banten, Bangka Belitung, then Aceh it was already running. Later in the next period several regions including DKI Jakarta. I think the process will be the same," said the Vice President. In a joint leadership meeting (rapimgab) of the DKI Jakarta DPRD on September 13, 2022, Heru and Marullah each pocketed nine votes. This means that all factions in the DKI DPRD, consisting of nine factions, chose the two figures. After being selected three names of proposals from the DKI DPRD, the final authority rests with President Joko Widodo who will choose one person as Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta. Apart from the DKI DPRD, the Ministry of Home Affairs also proposed three names so that a total of six names would be proposed to President Jokowi. The names of proposals from the Ministry of Home Affairs can be the same as the three names proposed by the DKI DPRD or different. After six names, the Minister of Home Affairs then proposed the names to President Jokowi for discussion in the Final Assessment Team (TPA) by President Jokowi and related institutions.