President Jokowi: Work Hard, Do Not Worry About Reshuffle

President Joko Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla led a limited meeting with Working Cabinet ministers, at the Presidential Office, Jakarta

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo once again requested the Working Cabinet ministers to work well and should not worry about the reshuffle because reshuffle is the authority of the President.

“I hope we could work well. The matter of reshuffle is my business,” President Jokowi said through his twitter account @jokowi on Thursday (7/1) morning.

Previously, when the President was asked by the reporters after attending the signing of the 2016 activities contracts, at the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing, Jakarta, on Wednesday (6/1), President Jokowi asserted that reshuffle is the prerogative of the President.

“You do not have to push and dictate. It is the prerogative of the President,” the President firmly said.

Regarding the assessment of ministries/institutions’ performance which was conducted by the Ministry of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureucratic Reform, President Jokowi said that the only one who can assess ministers’ performance is the President .

“It is a principle. Once again, the only one who can assess ministers’ performance is the President,” President Jokowi said.

Therefore, President Jokowi wants the ministers to keep working. (ES) (RAS/MMD/YM/Naster)