Indonesia .. a second ministerial amendment, economic program package and calm protests policy
Jakarta- Indonesian President Prabu Sobanto previously had time in dealing with the wave of protests recently in cities before their calmness during the past ten days. The first was in his reign about 10 months of calm since he took over the presidency last October.
The security dealings went beyond the use of major religious and societal organizations, and gathered the position of the parliamentary parties in a unified speech with his coalition government, and then made ministerial amendments, two times in less than two weeks.
Today, Wednesday, retired General Jamari Chanjo, who was the former Chief of Staff of the Army between 2000 and 2004, was appointed to be the new minister for security and political affairs, and he was appointed as a new minister in the portfolio of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, and 3 other deputies in different ministries, and he is expected to soon be appointed as a new minister of government companies of economic, developmental and social importance.
Ministerial amendments
Meanwhile, dozens of bicycle drivers organized Fare The fiery is a protest in front of Parliament, demanding the achievement of justice for two of their colleagues who died in the protests that took place Indonesia About two weeks ago, and in a new law regarding the work of electronic delivery and transportation applications, and their fairness in terms of the percentage of what they get in exchange for what the companies that owe the applications get, and stop working with them because they are “not fair to them.”
Sobanto had made a sudden ministerial amendment on the eighth of September a month and a half before the completion of his first year and after the protests that called for reformist demands in state institutions and witnessed the killing of 11 civilians and government employees, wounding hundreds and arresting more than 3 thousand people, many of whom were released.
In the introduction to their isolation, Minister of Finance, Sri Moliani Andrawati, who has been overseeing this position for 14 years, and her house was subjected to riots during the recent protests, which prompted her, according to press sources, to ask her to be exempted from her position. The Minister of Coordinator for Security and Political Affairs, Body Gonaan and others, is also removed.
It is noteworthy that 4 of the 5 ministers of those who have finished their services are from the ministerial formation of former President Goku Widodo.
A new and independent ministry for Hajj and Umrah affairs created, and separated from the Ministry of Religious Affairs for the second time during the recent history of Indonesia. This decision did not come with a purely administrative motivation, but also happens in light of a popular interest in the issue of suspicions of financial and administrative corruption in the Department of Hajj Affairs in the last year season, as the Anti -Corruption Commission is conducting investigations with the former minister of government, Yaqout Khalil Gasmas and a number of officials of his ministry, regarding profiting from 20 thousand people “added by the Saudi government” to the share of Indonesia.
Economic programs
Following the demonstrations and burning of local police headquarters and legislative councils, the Minister of Coordinator for Legal Affairs, Human Rights, Immigration and Reforms said, Erisel, Issa Mahndra: The tasks, powers and scope of the police work will be subject to a review by a reform committee that will be established under a presidential decree. This is after the demands of several protesting students related to the method of dealing with the recent demonstrations.
Because students, workers and others demanded to improve the standard of living of the citizen, the government announced two days ago a number of economic programs through which it seeks to respond to some challenges of the economic reality in the country, and to achieve the growth of local product this year by 5.3%.
The Coordinator of Economic Affairs, Erlana Hartarto, said that the package includes 8 programs to accelerate development and spending during the remaining months of this year, 4 other programs for the year 2026, and 5 initiatives to provide job opportunities.
The first of these programs aims to train 20 thousand new graduates from universities who have a diploma or a Bachelor for 6 months, by linking them to the industrial sector, and they will receive monthly salaries equivalent to the minimum wage according to the provinces and regions, with a total value of 198 billion rupees (12.1 million dollars).
The second incentive step also includes expanding the scope of exemption from one of the income taxes for the government to bear the companies in the tourism, hotels, restaurants and cafes sectors in addition to the intense sectors, and about half a million people are expected to benefit from this exemption within the next 3 months, and the allocations of that amount to 120 billion rupees (7.3 million dollars), according to Hartarto.
Government promises
As for the food aid program, it is an addition to providing 10 kilograms of rice for two months coming and perhaps 3 for those who are entitled, and requires financing of 7 trillion rupee ($ 426 million). Social security is offered to those who work with daily wages – not for long -term decades – a subsidy, which is 50% of their subscriptions to social insurance, and about 731 thousand people, including transport and delivery drivers and logistical services workers, will benefit from them, and a budget of 36 billion rupees ($ 2.2 million).
In its fifth program, the government is also a housing benefits offered by the Social Security Authority by reducing interest rates on loans, with a budget of 150 billion rupees (9.1 million dollars), for about a thousand families this year, and may rise to 3 million families next year.
The sixth program is funded by cash projects for work for 610,000 people within the next 4 months, and funding includes 3.5 trillion rupees (213 million dollars). The government is to accelerate the liberalization of markets and issue commercial licenses in the governorates, and with an estimated budget of a trillion rupee ($ 61 million).
The eighth program also targets experimental projects in major cities, including the Free Labor Economy Center in Jakarta, and similar projects will be presented in densely populated regions such as Western Java, Eastern Central, Banatin, Bali, and in certain cities such as Manado, Makassar and Badam, and funding will come from local governments and the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy.
In a related context, the Minister of Finance, Borbaya Yudi Sadwa – who was recently appointed – announced that during the past days, the government started distributing 200 trillion rupee (about 12 billion dollars) to 5 state -owned commercial banks, with the aim of increasing liquidity in the banking system and enhancing economic growth.
He explained that these funds are not intended for emergency, but rather a government that has not been spent before and was stored in the central bank, and by placing it in commercial banks owned by the state, it can be accessed for loans.
