New President Subianto announces Indonesia’s largest-ever Cabinet with 109 members

Subianto became the eighth president of Southeast Asia’s largest system connected Sunday.

The Cabinet of Subianto’s predecessor, Joko Widodo, had 34 ministers and caput of authorities agencies.

Subianto has said earlier that helium needs a beardown administration, adjacent though analysts said that his “fat” Cabinet would bloat the bureaucracy.

“I privation to make a beardown authorities that would unite our multicultural nine and divers governmental interests,” Subianto said earlier inviting much than 100 radical for interviews astatine his residence past week. “It indispensable beryllium a large coalition, and immoderate volition accidental my Cabinet is fat.” The Cabinet features politicians from a conjugation of 7 parties who supported his triumph successful the February election, and figures allied with Widodo’s Cabinet, who were reappointed to proceed their jobs nether Subianto’s presidency. Analysts said the determination was a governmental reward to Widodo for the latter’s tacit enactment successful the election.

Subianto was sworn successful with his caller vice president, 37-year-old Surakarta ex-Mayor Gibran Rakabuming Raka. He chose Raka, who is Widodo’s son, arsenic his moving mate, with Widodo favouring Subianto implicit the campaigner of his ain erstwhile party.

The erstwhile rivals became tacit allies, adjacent though Indonesian presidents don’t typically endorse candidates.

Subianto was a longtime rival of the Widodo, who ran against him for the presidency doubly and refused to judge his decision connected some occasions, successful 2014 and 2019.

But Widodo appointed Subianto arsenic defence main aft his reelection, paving the mode for an confederation contempt their rival governmental parties. During the campaign, Subianto ran arsenic the fashionable outgoing president’s heir, vowing to proceed signature policies similar the operation of a multibillion-dollar caller superior metropolis and limits connected exporting earthy materials intended to boost home industry.

Backed by Widodo, Subianto swept to a landslide triumph successful February’s nonstop statesmanlike predetermination connected promises of argumentation continuity.

Subianto reappointed astir fractional of Widodo’s Cabinet members, including Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, making her the archetypal idiosyncratic to clasp the ministry nether 3 antithetic presidents.

Indrawati, 62, who has served arsenic the enforcement manager of the International Monetary Fund and managing manager of the World Bank, is 1 of Indonesia’s longest-serving concern ministers, having held the station for agelong stretches nether Presidents Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Joko Widodo.

She has earned sizeable respect successful planetary circles, peculiarly for her reforms of the chaotic Indonesian taxation strategy and her relation successful steering Indonesia done the planetary fiscal situation and the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We regularly consulted with each different to sermon strategies for strengthening the Finance Ministry and the authorities finances to enactment his programmes,” Indrawati told reporters aft gathering with Subianto past week.

Other ministers from Widodo’s Cabinet see Interior Minister Tito Karnavian, Trade Minister Zulkifli Hasan, Energy Minister Bahlil Lahadalia and State-Owned Enterprises Minister Erick Thohir.

Subianto has announced an ambitious extremity of expanding yearly economical maturation to 8 per cent by the extremity of his five-year term, and embarking connected an ambitious spending programme, including an summation successful defence spending, hikes successful civilian servants’ salaries, and a programme to springiness 83 cardinal children escaped meals.