Sumber : The Jakarta Post
THE 2024 political year is about to end. A new government regime under the leadership of Prabowo Subianto will officially replace President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) on October 20, 2024. At the inauguration, Prabowo Subianto, together with his vice president Gibran Rakabuming Raka, will announce the names that will fill his cabinet.
The discourse surrounding the zaken kabinet (expert cabinet) that Prabowo Subianto is expected to form seems to be mere rhetoric. In a zaken kabinet, ministerial seats are filled by experts highly competent in their fields, without regard to the number of seats in parliament. But the political reality is different. This is similar to what Jokowi did when he initially aimed to simplify the bureaucracy in 2014, but what was implemented was quite the opposite. Jokowi’s cabinet turned out to be a “bulky”, and in 2019, he even added 12 deputy ministerial positions.
