A Dark Horse in the Palace
ON the way home to the ministers' housing complex at Widya Chandra in South Jakarta, State Secretariat Minister Pratikno's cellphone rang. At the other end of the line, an aide to President Joko Widodo forwarded an important message Tuesday evening last week. Pratikno was to draw up a presidential order.
Luhut Binsar Panjaitan, now Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, was to step back from his post as chief of the Presidential Staff Office. President Jokowi also gave another order to Pratikno concerning Luhut's replacement, and to begin preparations for an inauguration ceremony for the said replacement at the State Palace the morning after.
September 8, 2015
ON the way home to the ministers' housing complex at Widya Chandra in South Jakarta, State Secretariat Minister Pratikno's cellphone rang. At the other end of the line, an aide to President Joko Widodo forwarded an important message Tuesday evening last week. Pratikno was to draw up a presidential order.
Luhut Binsar Panjaitan, now Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, was to step back from his post as chief of the Presi
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