Jakarta, May 5 (Antara) -- Six months into his term, President Joko
Widodo, who was installed as Indonesia's seventh president last October,
is expected to reshuffle his cabinet ministers as they are believed to
be underperforming.
Of late, some quarters have been voicing the need for Jokowi, as the
president is popularly known, to reshuffle his Working Cabinet to make
his government run more effectively.
"As seen in the
performance of the Working Cabinet, only a few ministers have been
active and carrying out their duties based on the tasks given by
President Jokowi. Others give the impression that they did not perform
the given tasks," a sociologist of the Gorontalo State University, Rudy
Harold said last month.
There have been indications that Jokowi will finally review his cabinet
ministers, as pointed out by Vice President Jusuf Kalla on Monday.
Kalla confirmed that the government will reshuffle its current cabinet to improve its performance.
"Yes,
it will be done as performance needs to be improved, and it will need
people with the required capabilities," he stated at his office but did
not mention when the reshuffle will take place.
He declined to divulge further details regarding the criteria to
replace or reposition ministers in the cabinet. He also did not reveal
when exactly it will be carried out.
"We
have not yet discussed it, including the date. It will certainly be
carried out in time if it is considered necessary," the Vice President
remarked.
According to political observer Boni Hargens of the University of
Indonesia, there will be no problem if President Jokowi reshuffles his
cabinet, as long as he does it properly and meets the target.
"Since the beginning, the president has stressed that mental revolution
should serve as a common spirit. Radical change in Indonesia's
currently complicated situation needs to be made. If reshuffling is the
technical solution, it needs to be done to achieve the goal. I think
there will be no problem with that," Hargens said on Thursday (April
23).
Many quarters are of the view that the ministers in the current cabinet
have not been able to adjust their performance to the president's
concept of 'Nawacita' (a Sanskrit term for nine priority development
programs) and mental revolution yet. Many policies issued are not
pro-people and based on neither Nawacita nor mental revolution, which
Jokowi intensively promoted in his presidential campaign last year.
"People's opinion on that is reasonable because in reality, there are
several ministers who could not dance to the tune of the mental
revolution concept. This means they could not adjust their performance
to the concept. Therefore, there must be a total correction," he
explained.
Furthermore, Secretary General of the Gerindra Party Ahmad Muzani said
that President Jokowi needs to reshuffle his cabinet ministers as some
of them were not appointed to appropriate positions.
"Regarding the cabinet reshuffle, I think most of the ministers should be reviewed," Muzani noted.
He remarked that several of them did not have the requisite
qualifications to occupy ministerial posts in the Joko Widodo
government, and some of them cannot even do anything.
"There are ministers who did not do and understand anything. So, I
think, the president, as the head of the government, needs to consider
reshuffling them to make his six-month-old government effective," he
emphasized.
As an example, Muzani cited the increase and decrease in fuel oil
prices as one of the careless policies implemented in the last six
months of his administration.
"The
government has raised the prices of fuel oil twice and lowered them
twice as well. This is a careless calculation. How could it happen
within a period of six months? This has disturbed the business sector
and other economic activities," he claimed.
On March 28, the government raised the prices of premium gasoline and diesel fuel by Rp500 per liter.
The prices of premium gasoline were raised from Rp6,800 to Rp7,300 per
liter in regions outside Java, Madura, and Bali (Jamali) and from
Rp6,900 to Rp7,400 in regions in Jamali.
It also hiked the price of subsidized diesel oil from Rp6,400 per liter
to Rp6,900 per liter in regions both inside and outside Java, Madura,
and Bali.
This was the second time the government raised the gasoline and diesel
oil prices in March, after increasing them earlier on March 1.
According to sociologist Rudy Harold of the Gorontalo State University,
if President Jokowi reshuffles his cabinet ministers, he should avoid
political intervention in selecting them. He should select those who are
masters in their respective fields.
"He should not differentiate between professionals and political
professionals. What is important is that the figure is a master of his
or her field, regardless of whether he or she comes from a political
party," Harold stressed.
He added that the president should have the courage to make a decision
without waiting for instructions from his supporting political party
because he has a prerogative right based on the state administrative
law.
Jokowi needs to review and evaluate his ministers' performance in the
economic field because the government is facing many complex problems
currently, such as in the oil and gas sectors, the weakening of the
rupiah, and the fluctuations in the prices of basic necessities.
Therefore, the vice president noted that the cabinet is likely to be reshuffled.
He had earlier said that the performance of current ministers will be
evaluated, and if a reshuffle is required, it will be done.
"The
ministers will be evaluated. A cabinet reshuffle will be done depending
on the requirement. It is the government's affairs, not that of survey
institutes," he remarked.
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