After a long debate and voting, Sultan Bachtiar Najamudin is finally elected as the new speaker of the Regional Representatives Council (DPR) for 2024-2029 period. Sultan Bachtiar Najamudin, who is strongly linked to Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s (SBY) Democratic Party, defeated La Nyalla Mattalitti, the previous speaker of DPD, in the voting.

The selection committee tasked to select the new five leaders of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for 2024-2029 period has just submitted the final list of top ten candidates to the outgoing President Jokowi. Who are they? Which ones will be elected as the new five KPK leaders by the House of Representatives (DPR)?

Pretty much as predicted, Puan Maharani, the daughter of PDIP matriarch Megawati Soekarnoputri, is re-elected as the Speaker of the House of Representatives (DPR) for 2024-2029 period. Puan will be assisted by four deputy speakers from Gerindra, Golkar, PKB, and Nasdem Party.

The National Mandate Party (PAN), one key member of Prabowo-Gibran’s coalition, has appointed Eko Hendro Purnomo or familiarly known as Eko Patrio, a comedian turned into a politician, as its new Secretary General for 2024-2029 period. Let’s talk a bit about Eko Patrio!

Today, on Oct. 1, the new lawmakers of the House of Representatives (DPR) for the 2024-2029 period will be sworn in altogether. Some of them, however, do not deserve to be inaugurated because they actually failed to collect enough votes in the 2024 legislative election but got a favor from their respective party to replace the elected ones.

Some key leaders of PDIP sent a different signal in relation to the upcoming meeting between their matriarch, Megawati Soekarnoputri, and President-elect Prabowo Subianto. This different signal triggers speculation that PDIP is not yet united on whether to join Prabowo’s administration or stay outside of the administration and become the opposition.

It looks like the ‘audition’ of ministers has just been started. President-elect Prabowo Subianto is starting to summon some figures that have been widely tipped as minister candidates into his private residence in Hambalang, Bogor, West Java. Who are they?

Minister of Trade Zulkifli Hasan, who is also the chairman of the National Mandate Party (PAN), recently met with Anindya Bakrie, who has just been elected as the new chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN) through an extraordinary congress (Munaslub) last week. Anindya is the son of Aburizal Bakrie, former chairman of Golkar Party and a long-time political ally of Zulkifli and President-elect Prabowo Subianto.

It seems that the meeting between President-elect Prabowo Subianto, who is the chairman of Gerindra Party, and the fifth President Megawati Soekarnoputri, the matriarch of PDIP, will happen very soon. However, the biggest question remains: Will Megawati bring PDIP into joining Prabowo’s administration? If PDIP joins Prabowo’s administration, how many portfolios will be given to the Party in the next cabinet?

Muhaimin Iskandar, the chairman of PKB, told the press on Wednesday (Sep. 25) that he doesn’t expect to become a minister in Prabowo Subianto’s cabinet. Muhaimin stated that he wants to focus on managing PKB and pesantren (Islamic boarding school). Really?