Organizing Ministers, Shifting Fortunes

President SBY has reorganized the standing of the ministries in his cabinet. Directorates offering rich pickings, too, have been moved.

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February 8, 2005

IN power for a hundred days, SBY-Kalla have begun to put the finishing touches to the posture of the cabinet. After a number of ministries were left floating in mid-air because they had no legal basis, last Monday President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signed a presidential regulation that changes and clarifies the areas of work of all the ministers.

The decision was labeled a presidential regulation and not the normal presidential decree, usually a

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