The Minister's Super Letter

On his trip to Lampung two weeks ago, President Joko Widodo met with Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Sudirman Said. At the meeting, Sudirman delivered a message from Kuntoro Mangkusubroto. The former chief of the Presidential Working Unit for Development Monitoring and Control (UKP4) was concerned about the governance of the state electricity company (PLN) to which he had just been appointed chief commissioner.

"Pak Kuntoro felt the need to deliver this message because the mandate of the President is to fix the PLN," Sudirman told Tempo last week. Kuntoro said there had been attempts to reduce his authority shortly after Jokowi appointed him in mid-October.

November 17, 2015