Name Calling

The cabinet composition has become a subject of tongue sparring among people around the presidential candidates. The exercise at the same time is meant to lift the respective candidate’s image.

September 14, 2004

A member of presidential candidate Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s success team at one time whispered to Tempo: “Never ask Bapak about the composition of his future cabinet. He won’t answer. Better ask about something else.”

In the face of the heightened public demand for the presidential candidates to name their choices for the cabinet posts, both prefer to keep quite. As a result, the identities of the ministerial candidates

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