Old Foes, New Friends
A MEETING attended by many ministries at the State Secretariat last Tuesday to discuss the upcoming 60th Asia-Africa Conference had just begun when Luhut Binsar Panjaitan, the president's chief of staff, quickly exited the room.
Driving his Lexus car, Luhut raced to the State Palace, which is in the same complex as the office of the State Secretariat. According to one senior Palace official, that night President Joko Widodo had assigned Luhut to meet Democrat Party Chairman Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to notify him of his decision to drop Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan as candidate for National Police Chief.
February 24, 2015
A MEETING attended by many ministries at the State Secretariat last Tuesday to discuss the upcoming 60th Asia-Africa Conference had just begun when Luhut Binsar Panjaitan, the president's chief of staff, quickly exited the room.
Driving his Lexus car, Luhut raced to the State Palace, which is in the same complex as the office of the State Secretariat. According to one senior Palace official, that night President Joko Widodo had assigned Luhut to me
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