The Vice President's Directive
After Vice-Presidential Decree 1/2004, now comes the vice-presidential secretary's letter on relations between government and the DPR. Some ministers still don't understand the institutional links between these two bodies.
Tempo
January 25, 2005
LESS than a hundred days in office, the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Jusuf Kalla has already gone through at least two procedural crises. The latest involves a letter sent by vice-presidential secretary Prijono Tjiptoherijanto to cabinet ministers and non-ministerial government agencies. It had fatal consequences: the secretary resigned.
Dated December 27-a day after disaster struck Aceh and parts of North
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