Gas Vegas
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
A LIMITED cabinet meeting at the Presidential Office on March 16 was disrupted by the intermittent protests of Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Sudirman Said. His source of unhappiness was Presidential Deputy Chief of Staff Darmawan Prasodjo who commented on Sudirman's speech. And to add insult to injury, Darmawan gave his own presentation on the Mahakam Block at this ministerial meeting led by President Joko Widodo himself.
After the meeting, Sudirman came to Darmawan and shook his hand. "We need to talk. It's about etiquette," one witness quoted Sudirman as saying, giving an account of what happened. According to this government official, the cabinet meeting should have only been for the president, ministers and minister-level officials. "Not staff," they grumbled.
A LIMITED cabinet meeting at the Presidential Office on March 16 was disrupted by the intermittent protests of Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Sudirman Said. His source of unhappiness was Presidential Deputy Chief of Staff Darmawan Prasodjo who commented on Sudirman's speech. And to add insult to injury, Darmawan gave his own presentation on the Mahakam Block at this ministerial meeting led by President Joko Widodo himself.
After the meeting,
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