Cabinet reshuffle gossip
Various sources gave different information on the much talked about cabinet reshuffle. These sources heard of stories told by those have been summoned by president SBY to ask their views. First of all, regarding the reshuffle itself, they got mixed signal even though most of them believe the president might do that in a matter of weeks.
The president asked many people about wide range of issues, such as energy, state-owned enterprises, infocom, transportation, infrastructure, etc.
"My feeling, the president would do that, somehow after Valentine," a government official said. That's common knowledge. In fact many observers predicted the reshuffle would be in March.
PAN Chairman Sutrisno Bachir, a close friend of SBY, claimed few days ago that the president would announce the reshuffle in late March.
Early this month, Golkar Party in its New Year statement announced by its executive and House Speaker Agung Laksono urged president SBY to reshuffle the cabinet immediately.
But some says the president once told the ministers in a cabinet meeting that they'll be in the team till 2009. Minister for health affairs even claimed this week that SBY gave her 'good' grade and believes she'll stay.
"There are two hot spots, SOEs & energy. Golkar really want to take both. They want to have Burhanuddin Napitupulu at SOE & Agusman Effendi at energy," a political expert said.
But I think it would be too much to accommodate for SBY. Even if he may finally kick Sugiharto out of the cabinet, he has his own candidate for the job. Several names are being tipped, Herwidayatmo (former director of World Bank/Bapepam chairman), Arwin Rasjid (Telkom CEO)& Agus Martowardojo (Mandiri CEO).
"If SBY takes SOEs, Golkar & VP's camp might have the chance to get energy ministry. That would be the tough one, because Purnomo has really close relationship with SBY," another analyst said.
SBY might also replace ministers with minor role to maintain political accommodation. Abdurrahman Wahid's PKB might ask SBY to replace Saefullah Yusuf (for jump ship, exit PKB and joins PPP). PAN urges SBY to replace economic ministers while maintaining three ministers from the party (Siti Fadillah Supari, Bambang Sudibyo, and Hatta Rajasa).
But Golkar executive Ferry Mursidan in his op-ed at Koran Tempo today urged president SBY to replace minister of religious affairs for haj scandal, minister of transportation for various accidents, and minister of small-medium enterprises as well.
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The president asked many people about wide range of issues, such as energy, state-owned enterprises, infocom, transportation, infrastructure, etc.
"My feeling, the president would do that, somehow after Valentine," a government official said. That's common knowledge. In fact many observers predicted the reshuffle would be in March.
PAN Chairman Sutrisno Bachir, a close friend of SBY, claimed few days ago that the president would announce the reshuffle in late March.
Early this month, Golkar Party in its New Year statement announced by its executive and House Speaker Agung Laksono urged president SBY to reshuffle the cabinet immediately.
But some says the president once told the ministers in a cabinet meeting that they'll be in the team till 2009. Minister for health affairs even claimed this week that SBY gave her 'good' grade and believes she'll stay.
"There are two hot spots, SOEs & energy. Golkar really want to take both. They want to have Burhanuddin Napitupulu at SOE & Agusman Effendi at energy," a political expert said.
But I think it would be too much to accommodate for SBY. Even if he may finally kick Sugiharto out of the cabinet, he has his own candidate for the job. Several names are being tipped, Herwidayatmo (former director of World Bank/Bapepam chairman), Arwin Rasjid (Telkom CEO)& Agus Martowardojo (Mandiri CEO).
"If SBY takes SOEs, Golkar & VP's camp might have the chance to get energy ministry. That would be the tough one, because Purnomo has really close relationship with SBY," another analyst said.
SBY might also replace ministers with minor role to maintain political accommodation. Abdurrahman Wahid's PKB might ask SBY to replace Saefullah Yusuf (for jump ship, exit PKB and joins PPP). PAN urges SBY to replace economic ministers while maintaining three ministers from the party (Siti Fadillah Supari, Bambang Sudibyo, and Hatta Rajasa).
But Golkar executive Ferry Mursidan in his op-ed at Koran Tempo today urged president SBY to replace minister of religious affairs for haj scandal, minister of transportation for various accidents, and minister of small-medium enterprises as well.
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posted by yosef at 9:52 PM
1 Comments:
I think the President should just close some Ministries for efficiency and transparent sake. For example, State Ministry for Accelerating Development of East Indonesia (Saifullah Yusuf) should just be part of Bappenas. State Ministry for State-Owned Enterprises should just be downgraded to Directorate General within MoF (since the Law on State-Owned Enterprises basically gives MoF the official shareholder of these SOEs). Although non-cabinet position, BKPM should just be folded into Bappenas as well. State Ministry of Youth and Sports should be combined with Ministry of Social Affairs and the name changed to Ministry of Social, Youth and Sports. That would be decisive and require political commitment. But Indonesian taxpayers would welcome any steps to reduce bureaucracy.
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