To be Inaugurated this Noon, New Ministers Join the Prime Cabinet Meeting Directly

To be Inaugurated this Noon, New Ministers Join the Prime Cabinet Meeting Directly

The ministers of Working Cabinet announced by President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and Vice President Jusuf Kalla (JK) yesterday will be inaugurated and sworn officially this noon in the State Palace, Jakarta. All of male ministers that will be inaugurated, will wear long-sleeved batik shirt and capped, not the complete civilian outfit (suit with tie), while the eight female ministers will wear national outfits.

Along with this minister’s inauguration, President Jokowi is also scheduled to inaugurate Cabinet Secretary, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Deputy Minister of Financial Affairs for 2014-2019 periods. After that, President Jokowi will chair directly the first cabinet meeting of his government in 2. P.m. Western Indonesia Time, at the Presidential Office, the State Palace.

As reported previously, President Jokowi announced the 34 names of ministers of Working Cabinet on Sunday at 5.16 p.m. Indonesian Western Time in the backyard of Merdeka Palace. “Alhamdulillah-hirabil-alamin, in this afternoon, the new cabinet has just been created and we call it Working Cabinet,” President Jokowi said it before the announcement.

According to President Jokowi, the announcement is eight days faster that the mandate of Law about State Ministry, which is 14 days. Being different from his predecessor, President Jokowi announced the cabinet by giving introductions and backgrounds of the ministers that he chose to the people.

From 34 ministers, eight of them are females. They are; Minister of State-Owned Enterprises Affairs Rini Soemarno, Minister of Environment and Forestry Affairs Siti Nurbaya, Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Affairs Puan Maharani, Minister of Health Affairs Nila Moeloek, Minister of Social Affairs Khofifah Indra Parawansa, Minister of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection Affairs Yohana Susana Yembise, Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno LP Marsudi, and Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Affairs Susi Pudjiastuti.

These are 34 ministers that will be inaugurated today:

1. Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs : Indroyono Susilo

2. Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs: Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno

3. Coordinating Minister for Economic : Sofyan Djalil

4. Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture : Puan Maharani

5. Minister of State Secretary: Pratikno

6. National Development Planning Minister/National Development Planning Board/ Chief of Bappenas: Andrinof Chaniago

7. Minister of Transportation : Ignasius Jonan

8.  Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries : Susi Pudjiastuti

9. Minister of Tourism : Arief Yahya

10. Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources : Sudirman Said

11. Minister of Home Affairs: Tjahjo Kumolo

12. Minister of Foreign Affairs : Retno Lestari Priansari Marsudi

13. Minister of Defense : Ryamizard Ryacudu

14. Minister of Law and Human Rights : Yasona H. Laoly

15. Minister of Communications and Information : Rudiantara

16.  Minister of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform : Yuddy Chrisnandi

17.  Minister of Finance : Bambang Brodjonegoro

18.  Minister of State-Owned Enterprises : Rini Soemarno

19. Minister of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises : AAGN Puspayoga

20. Minister of Industry : Saleh Husin

21. Minister of Trade : Rahmat Gobel

22. Minister of Agriculture : Amran Sulaiman

23. Minister of Manpower : Hanif Dhakiri

24. Minister of Public Works and Public Housing : Basuki Hadimuljono

25. Minister of Environment and Forestry : Siti Nurbaya

26.  Minister of Agrarian and Spatial Planning : Ferry Musyidan Baldan

27.  Minister of Religious Affairs : Lukman Hakim Saifuddin

28.  Minister of Health : Nila F. Moeloek

29.  Minister of Social Affairs : Khofifah Indra Parawansa

30. Minister of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection : Yohana Yembise

31. Minister of Culture and Elementary and Secondary Education M: Anies Baswedan

32. Minister of Research and Technology and Higher Education:  M. Nasir

33. Minister of Youth and Sports : Imam Nahrawi.

34. Minister of Villages, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration : Marwan Jafar

(WID/ES)