The 48-strong team comprises politicians, professionals and business managers.
The list of 48 ministers announced by Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto features a mix of politicians, professionals and business managers.
This approach is expected to boost the administration’s legitimacy and reduce potential tensions among political elites, said Mr Rudy Syamsuddin, a former chairman of a housing material producers’ association in Indonesia. Noted political analyst Burhanuddin Muhtadi told Jakarta-based KompasTV: “With the large Cabinet size, the decision-making process would be more complicated and would not be efficient.”
State-Owned Enterprises Minister Erick Thohir, whose family was a main campaign donor to Mr Widodo, will continue in the same role too. The key post of foreign minister will be held by Mr Sugiono, who like many Indonesians uses one name, a military officer-turned-politician who helped Mr Prabowo establish the Gerindra party. He studied in the 1990s at Norwich University’s military academy in Vermont, which is the oldest private and senior military college in the US.
The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle has not declared its support for the Prabowo administration, while NasDem pledged its support but refrained from proposing any names to Mr Prabowo for selection as Cabinet ministers.
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