JAKARTA. President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, who has yet to finalize his Cabinet, summoned more figures on Thursday for separate closed-door meetings at the State Palace, including persons believed to have been endorsed by the political parties grouped in Jokowi's governing coalition. Among those summoned included National Awakening Party (PKB) politicians Marwan Ja'far, Hanif Dakhiri and Muhammad Nasir. Marwan confirmed that they were the candidates the PKB had proposed to Jokowi after PKB party chairman Muhaimin Iskandar, who has been implicated in a 2011 graft case during his tenure as minister of the Manpower and Transmigration Ministry, hinted he would not accept a ministerial post.
Jokowi summons more figures to State Palace
JAKARTA. President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, who has yet to finalize his Cabinet, summoned more figures on Thursday for separate closed-door meetings at the State Palace, including persons believed to have been endorsed by the political parties grouped in Jokowi's governing coalition. Among those summoned included National Awakening Party (PKB) politicians Marwan Ja'far, Hanif Dakhiri and Muhammad Nasir. Marwan confirmed that they were the candidates the PKB had proposed to Jokowi after PKB party chairman Muhaimin Iskandar, who has been implicated in a 2011 graft case during his tenure as minister of the Manpower and Transmigration Ministry, hinted he would not accept a ministerial post.