[AIC Backgrounder No.1/2019] Kevin Evans takes a look at the make-up of the new Cabinet, and outlines some initial challenges and opportunities the Cabinet and the Government face.
Politics
Indonesia was last on the council as recently as 2017 and has done little to support its goal to promote and protect global human rights.
Despite the diametric opposition between their supporters, in reality the political difference between the two leaders is shrinking, if not disappearing altogether.
Prabowo’s appointment as defence minister raises the prospect of strained relations between Indonesia’s defence ministry (Kemhan) and Indonesian Armed Forces Headquarters.
Post presidential inauguration, parties are now deciding on which coalition to join and, intertwined with those movements, Jokowi is choosing a cabinet.
Jokowi unveiled his new Cabinet for a second term, picking a former industry minister and retaining his finance minister and foreign minister.
Joko Widodo appointed Prabowo Subianto, opposition leader in Widodo’s first term, as defence minister in a move that stirred disappointment among human rights defenders.
“Indonesia I think is facing a very dynamic and uncertain global economy and an economic slowdown that is pressuring the whole world,” Indrawati said.
Indonesia launched an international aid agency on Friday to strengthen its regional diplomatic relations, some of which have been strained by Jakarta’s approach to the restive Papua region.
Nadiem Makarim, co-founder of Indonesia’s first startup unicorn Gojek, resigned from his company and said he will take up a cabinet post.
Movements have been fragmented and divided into thematic silos that make it hard to get across a coherent message with little crossover and cooperation.
Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo has been sworn in for another term, six months after his resounding election victory. The 58-year-old president has pledged to make Indonesia one of the world’s top economies within 25 years.
KPU of Indonesia visited ITB to initiate a cooperation in development of electronic-based vote counting system for Simultaneous Regional Elections 2020.
Attacks on senior officials in Indonesia are very rare, though terrorist attacks on police are common. Protection proved to be disturbingly lax – the stabber got right up to the door of Wiranto’s car. The weapon was a knife, not a bomb or a gun.
“Don’t let democracy be in the hands of elites,” said Jokowi. “Democracy must be held by the people.”
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo remarked that the speed of service is the key to bureaucratic reform as one of the national priorities agenda for his next term during his speech in the Indonesia Vision event last July in Bogor, West Java.
