YUSRIL Ihza Mahendra, 51, does not like to be called the young minister in the cabinet by his colleagues. “I am the oldest minister. Two who were also ministers at the same time as me are now the President and Vice President,” said the State Secretary, three weeks ago.

Yusril, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, and Vice President Jusuf Kalla were indeed in a presidential cabinet at the same time, namely in 1999, at the start of the Abdurra