PAN Has Not Received Definite Information About The Ngabalin Prediction Of Jokowi's Reshuffle Of The Monthly Cabinet

President Jokowi in his plenary cabinet session at the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, Monday 9 May 2022. (BPMI Setkab dock)

JAKARTA - PAN politician Guspardi Gaus admitted that he had not received any information on when President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) would realize his discourse on re-shaking or cabinet reshuffle.

"I have not received any information about the truth," said Guspardi, when confirmed, Thursday, January 5. According to this member of Commission II of the DPR, only Jokowi knows when the cabinet reshuffle will be right. Including, what ministers are removed from being replaced.

"We leave it entirely to the President regarding his cabinet reshuffle. The president who understands very well the competence of each minister," said Guspardi. Guspardi understands that currently what President Jokowi needs at the end of his term of office is surrounded by competent ministers and also solid cabinet arrangements. "The president not only needs a competent minister but also a solid cabinet, especially since the democratic event is getting closer," said Guspardi.

Previously, the Main Expert of the Presidential Staff Office (KSP) Ali Mochtar Ngabalin predicted that President Jokowi would reshuffle the cabinet in January 2023. "Maybe this January (reshuffle)," Ngabalin told reporters, Thursday, January 5. He also asked all parties to wait. Because the reshuffle of the minister is Jokowi's prerogative. "We'll wait together," he added.

Ngabalin then asked the minister who would later be hit by the reshuffle not to be discouraged. He left a message so that the minister who was removed would still smile and step out of the cabinet as at the beginning of the President's recruitment. "If later there is a minister who is replaced, you must keep the spirit and smile as you were chosen when you were first chosen. Don't be angry, don't be angry, don't be angry because when you have arrived here. Still and have to thank the President when he was appointed and dismissed by him," said Ngabalin.