Jokowi to Name Campaign Team Chief upon Arriving from Lombok
13 August 2018 15:18 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung said the leader of the Jokowi-Ma’ruf election campaign team would be appointed immediately, pending an empty slot in the work schedule of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.
“About the campaign leader, the president will make a decision upon arriving from Lombok,” Pramono said at the State Palace in Jakarta, Monday, August 13, 2018. Jokowi is scheduled to leave for Lombok this afternoon to monitor quake-torn areas in Lombok.
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Pramono said the names of the campaign leaders of supervisory council and directing council were still being finalized. He added Vice President Jusuf Kalla was among the names. “All factions, all parties propose Pak JK as the leader,” he said.
The Jokowi camp has finished the discussions on other strategic posts in the team’s structure. Lodewick F. Paulus, the sec-gen of the Golkar Party, has been tapped as the campaign’s deputy chair.
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The sec-gen of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, Hasto Kristiyanto, has been named as the team’s secretary, while Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita, the Golkar Party’s coordinator for women, youth and social innovation affairs, is assigned as the team’s treasurer.
VINDRY FLORENTIN