Rage over Rizal Ramli
Like a drunken god, Maritime Affairs Coordinating Minister Rizal Ramli walks into things, makes harsh comments that are often misdirected. He is free to criticize government policies or his colleagues at cabinet meetings, but if he does so in public, it confuses the people, creating the impression that the cabinet is not united.
Rizal has been critical ever since he replaced Indroyono Soesilo last August. He denounced the purchase of aircrafts by Garuda Indonesia, proclaimed a 35,000-megawatt electricity generating project an impossibility and criticized the price of pre-paid electricity. Then, came the sharp difference of opinion between him and manging director of state-owned Pelindo II port company, R.K. Lino. Without telling him in advance, Minister Rizal went to a Pelindo port and symbolically drilled into concrete, blocking the railroad line to the harbor.
September 22, 2015
Like a drunken god, Maritime Affairs Coordinating Minister Rizal Ramli walks into things, makes harsh comments that are often misdirected. He is free to criticize government policies or his colleagues at cabinet meetings, but if he does so in public, it confuses the people, creating the impression that the cabinet is not united.
Rizal has been critical ever since he replaced Indroyono Soesilo last August. He denounced the purchase of aircrafts b
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