Criticism on Government is Normal, Cabinet Secretary Says
22 October 2018 19:56 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung said the country's administration under President Jokowi in the past four years had been going well, according to multiple polls.
“It is the people who can feel whether this administration is going well or not. When the level of satisfaction is high, it means that this administration has gone well,” he said at the Presidential Palace Complex in Bogor, West Java on Monday, October 22.
Pram said the criticism was normal. “We have entered the campaign period, of course, we are aware that certain things will be stated, but the government is ready, whatever to be criticized, highlighted by those outside of the administration,” he said.
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A number of institutions have given special notes on Jokowi's administration in the past four years. Human rights activists, for example, said the Jokowi government had failed to safeguard religious freedom.
The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS) noted there were around 488 cases of violations of freedom of worship and belief during in the past four years.
AHMAD FAIZ IBNU SANI