JAKARTA. Jakarta City Council officially filed a recommendation to the Home Ministry on Wednesday to install acting Jakarta governor Djarot Saiful Hidayat to the official position. The recommendation was announced during a plenary meeting on the resignation of the city's non-active governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, currently in prison for blasphemy. "Based on a letter to the Home Ministry, we would like to recommend [the ministry] appoint Djarot Saiful Hidayat as Jakarta governor for the remaining working period of the 2012 to 2017 term," said the council secretary, Muhammad Yuliadi during the meeting as quoted by kompas.com.
Councilors officially recommend Djarot
JAKARTA. Jakarta City Council officially filed a recommendation to the Home Ministry on Wednesday to install acting Jakarta governor Djarot Saiful Hidayat to the official position. The recommendation was announced during a plenary meeting on the resignation of the city's non-active governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, currently in prison for blasphemy. "Based on a letter to the Home Ministry, we would like to recommend [the ministry] appoint Djarot Saiful Hidayat as Jakarta governor for the remaining working period of the 2012 to 2017 term," said the council secretary, Muhammad Yuliadi during the meeting as quoted by kompas.com.