Indonesia's Jokowi appoints new communications minister in another Cabinet reshuffle

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JAKARTA: Indonesian president Joko Widodo reshuffled his Cabinet for the fourth time during his second term in office on Monday (Jul 17), appointing a new communications and informatics minister as well as a number of senior government positions.

Mr Budi Arie Setiadi was named the new communications minister to replace Johnny Plate, who is now under investigation for corruption.for his involvement in the procurement of thousands of communications towers, the cost of which the Indonesian attorney general’s office said was inflated and resulted in about 8 trillion rupiah in state losses.

The president, popularly known as Jokowi, also appointed Mr Paiman Raharjo to replace Mr Setiadi as deputy minister. Mr Raharjo is currently the rector of Moestopo University in Jakarta. The deputy foreign minister position has been vacant since July 2022 when the previous deputy minister Mahendra Siregar was appointed as the chief of the Financial Services Authority, a regulatory body that monitors all financial service providers.

 

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