Comprising a motley mix of newcomers and old hands, technocrats and politicians including opposition figures, some analysts have dubbed it the “Cabinet of compromise”.
Gado-gado is a local salad of assorted vegetables in peanut sauce, but it also literally means “mixing” in Bahasa Indonesia. Fresh faces with impressive credentials include co-founder of ride-hailing company Gojek, Nadiem Makarim, 35, who was appointed education and cultural affairs minister, and television veteran Wishnutama, 43, who got the post of tourism minister.
“Nadiem’s appointment demonstrated Jokowi’s focus to grow the digital economy sector and create millions of new jobs,” he said. His inclusion, as well as that of other political appointees, showed compromise and the reality of political patronage, analysts said.“Democracy has lost a significant opposition force in Parliament,” Indonesian Institute of Sciences political expert Syamsuddin Haris said.
“Jokowi’s offer to Prabowo could also be read as his efforts to escape from being potentially held hostage to his coalition partners, and also to maintain a distance from PDI-P and its chairman Megawati Soekarnoputri,” said Syamsuddin.
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