Djarot Saiful Hidayat left no words of advice for his replacement, Anies Rasyid Baswedan, and did not attend the latter’s swearing in as the new Jakarta governor at City Hall last Monday. At the time, Djarot was in Labuan Bajo, East Nusa Tenggara, with his family.

But the former governor did leave a few parting words for Jakarta’s regional secretary, Saefullah. "His message was, ‘I entrust you with Jakarta.’ In Javanese, ‘entrust’ has