Politics

In the previous instalment of the article, we’ve mentioned some names of potential candidates for the replacement of Sri Mulyani Indrawati in Prabowo-Gibran’s cabinet. Recently, Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa, who is known as Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan’s guy, has also been tipped as another potential candidate for the next Minister of Finance.

The Military Commander (Panglima TNI) General Agus Subiyanto instituted the latest job rotation affecting 256 high-ranking military officers. This job rotation is truly worth highlighting because Lt. Gen. Mohammad Hasan, who is a former Commander of the Presidential Details’ Group A (Paspamres) for the outgoing President Jokowi, has been promoted as the new Commander of the Army’s Strategic Reserve Command (Kostrad), the largest unit in the Indonesian Army (TNI AD). The rotation also made changes into some territorial commanders (Pangdam) and provincial intelligence chiefs (Kabinda).

It is only a matter of time before Ahmad Luthfi, the current provincial police chief (Kapolda) of Central Java, and Kaesang Pangarep, the youngest son of the outgoing President Jokowi, are officially announced as a pair of governor and vice governor candidates for this year’s Central Java gubernatorial election. Luthfi-Kaesang will likely compete against those from PDIP in a head-to-head race.

PP Muhammadiyah, the second largest Islamic organization in Indonesia, is finally following the footsteps of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the largest Islamic organization in the country, in accepting the odd policy issued by the outgoing President Jokowi, which allows a religion-based mass organization (ormas) to control special mining permit and or special mining concession (WIUPK). Muhammadiyah will announce its official decision tomorrow (Jul. 27) during its National Consolidation meeting held in Yogyakarta.

In a previous article, we’ve talked about our analysis on the strategy of Prabowo-Gibran’s coalition in the 2024 simultaneous regional elections. On Thursday (Jul. 25), Idrus Marham from Golkar, a key member of Prabowo-Gibran’s coalition, confirmed our analysis.

Pretty much as predicted, the selection of the new leaders of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has given the opportunity to both those in power and those in the opposition to put their guys at the helm of the Agency for the next period of 2024-2029. In the previous article, we’ve mentioned two candidates: Sudirman Said, who is known close to Jusuf Kalla and Anies Baswedan, and Ike Edwin, a retired two-star police general and now a politician from Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s (SBY) Democratic Party. In this article, let’s talk about some other candidates worth highlighting for their political connections.

Many interesting things happen in the anniversary event of PKB, held on Tuesday (Jul. 23) night at the Jakarta Convention Center (JCC) in Senayan, Central Jakarta. Other than the confession from PKS that the Party wishes to join Prabowo Subianto’s administration, the Acting Chairman of PPP Mardiono also made an interesting statement during the event. Mardiono hopes that Muhaimin Iskandar, the chairman of PKB, is willing to run in the gubernatorial election this year. Both PPP and PKB are the two Islamic parties strongly affiliated to the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the largest Islamic organization in Indonesia.