Power Seekers
PRESIDENT Joko Widodo had just ended his sundown prayer at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, on Thursday in mid-April. Vice President Jusuf Kalla approached him, then softly tapped his shoulder. He asked Jokowi his reason for rejecting the nomination of Muhammad Said Didu as the director-general of minerals and coal at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources. An official who knew what happened said that the president replied tersely: "There were special considerations."
May 12, 2015
PRESIDENT Joko Widodo had just ended his sundown prayer at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, on Thursday in mid-April. Vice President Jusuf Kalla approached him, then softly tapped his shoulder. He asked Jokowi his reason for rejecting the nomination of Muhammad Said Didu as the director-general of minerals and coal at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources. An official who knew what happened said that the president replied tersely: "There
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