SBY Second term cabinet members. Are they dreaming team cabinet members, or the weakest?

SBY Second term cabinet members. Are they dreaming team cabinet members, or the weakest?

By: Muhammad Jusuf *

Indonesian Elected President Susilo Bambang YudhoyonoSusilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) and his runningmate Budiono were sworn in as a 2009-20014 Indonesian President and Vice President in the front of Indonesian Parliament members on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 in Parliament building in Jakarta. Present on the event Malaysian Prime Minister, Australian Prime Minister, Timor Lester Prime Minister, and Singapore Prime Minister and the United States Representative and other foreign representatives.

Wednesday night, at 22.00 local times, SBY on the press conference announce his 34 cabinet members. Other three Indonesian highest ranking on cabinet minister level, Attorney General Minister, Indonesian Police Chief and Army in Chief Still continuing his job. ‘’Those three peoples still continuing their job, and in the right time, we will replace them to another peoples,’’ said SBY on the Press Conferences in Presidential palace residences in Jakarta. Indonesian vice President Boediono present on the press conferences.

Ten ministers from the previous Cabinet were re-named, albeit with different portfolios. The only major surprise was the selection of Endang Rahayu Sedya-ningsih as health minister, apparently replacing the frontrunner for the job, Nila Juwita Anfasha Moeloek.

The latter, according to media reports earlier in the day, failed her checkup, which was one of the prerequisites set by the President in his screening process. Nila's aide told journalists the frontrunner was heartbroken at being passed over, while her house was already receiving premature congratulatory bouquets.

In a Cabinet half-filled with politicians, members of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) were conspicuously, but not unexpectedly, absent. PDI-P Secretary General Pramono Anung and PDIP leaders Maharani said his party not joint to the SBY cabinet members. ‘’We want our party still in other cabinet, we do not says that our party as an opposition parties, but we become a strategic partner party who will critics SBY programmed if they went wrong to pro-peoples economic programme,’’ said Pramono Anung.

‘’We can not have an authority to chose he PDIP candidates to become an SBY members without approval from PDIP Chairman Megawati Soekarnoputri, event from Maharani itself,’’ said Taufik Kiemas, Advisory Board Chairman of PDIP who become a Chairman of Indonesian Consultative Assembly (MPR) because get supporting from ruling parties Democrat Party.

Today, at 13.30 on Thursday, October 22, 2009 all the cabinet members are sworn in in Presidential palace in Jakarta. Here are the names of 34 members of Indonesian cabinet members:

The United Indonesia Cabinet 2009-2014

Coordinating Ministers

1. Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs: Djoko Suyanto
2. Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare: Agung Laksono
3. Coordinating Minister for the Economy: M. Hatta Radjasa

Portfolio Ministers

Home Minister: Gamawan Fauzi

Foreign Minister: R. M. Marty Muliana Natalegawa

Defense Minister: Purnomo Yusgiantoro

Justice and Human Rights Minister: Patrialis Akbar

Finance Minister: Sri Mulyani

Energy and Mineral Resources Minister: Darwin Z. Saleh

Industry Minister: M. S. Hidayat

Trade Minister: Mari Elka Pangestu

Agriculture Minister: Suswono

Forestry Minister: Zulkifli Hasan

Transportation Minister: Freddy Numberi

Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister: Fadel Muhammad

Manpower and Transmigration Minister: Muhaimin Iskandar

Public Works Minister: Djoko Kirmanto

Health Minister: Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih

Education Minister: Mohammad Nuh

Social Affairs Minister: Salim Segaf Al Jufri

Religious Affairs Minister: Suryadharma Ali

Minister of Culture and Tourism: Jero Wacik

Minister of Communication and Information: Tifatul Sembiring

State Ministers

State Secretary: Sudi Silalahi

State Minister Research and Technology: Suharna Surapranata

State Minister for Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises: Syarifuddin Hasan

State Minister for the Environment: Gusti M. Hatta

State Minister for Women's Empowerment: Linda A. Gumelar

State Minister for Administrative Reforms: E. E. Mangindaan

State Minister for Disadvantaged Regions: Ahmad Helmi Faisal Zaini

State Minister for National Development Planning/National Development Planning Board chairman: Armida Alisjahbana

State Minister for State Enterprises : Mustafa Abubakar

State Minister for Youth and Sports Affairs : Andi Mallarangeng

State Minister for Public Housing : Suharso Manoarfa

State officials

Head of State Intelligence Agency : Sutanto

Head of Investment Coordinating

Board (BKPM) : Gita Irawan Wirjawan

Presidential Unit for the Management of Reform Programs (UKP3R) : Kuntoro Mangkusubroto

The weakest members?

If wee look at the figure of the cabinet members, the are 12 members are from Indonesian leading parties members, and the rest are from professional, not only have a Moslem bag round, but also from Christian bag round like Poernomo Yusgiantoro from Catholic and Mari Elka Pangestu also as a Christian. Event the Javanese ethnicity mostly is Javanese, but some of them are represents from non-Javanese, like former West Sumatra province governor Gumawan Fauzi, Minang ethnicity from West Sumatra as a Home Affairs Minister, Gusti M Hatta Lecture from Lambung Mangkurat University of South Kalimantan provinces as a newly Environmental Minister and former Fishery Minister Freddy Numbery is Papuan ethnicity to become a Transportation Minister.

But, today, Thursday, October 22, 2009 hundreds of students went to the Ambon city street to demonstrate to show they oppositions on the Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono cabinet members composition, because no one cabinet minister member is from Moluccas ethnicity. ‘’Our province is the 8 provinces which sign the Indonesian independent declaration,’’ vow the Ambonese students on the streets.

The students block the Moluccas palace offices in Ambon and the access street to the Ambon city International airport, so hundreds of airplane passenger delay and postpone their journey to other cities.

Likely, SBY to heavy to compromise to the Political Parties which support him in the last Presidential candidacy campaign. If we look at composition of the three of the Coordinating Minister

Former Indonesian State Secretary Minister Hatta Radjasa who also as one of the National Mandate Party (PAN) chairman to become Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs. He is not having an economic education bag round, he is an engineers. And we look at the other economic minister bag round, like Sri Mulyani as a Finance Minister, and Mohamad S Hidayat, former Industry and Commerce Chambered Association Chairman to become an Industry Minister, the focus on the cabinet members programmed is heavily to the fiscal and finance problems, not an industrialization programmed.

One of the weakest Indonesian programmed are how to improve their industrial product quality and comparative advantage we compare to other countries, that is why most of Indonesian industrial product have weakest quality product and the value and prices of product more expensive than import product from China, India and from other countries such as Vietnam.

Is the Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono second term are a dream team cabinet members or just more weak than before the first term. The history will tell the truth and the fact, either in the first 100 days programmed, the first year term or just wait in the next five years?

SBY Second term cabinet members. Are they dreaming team cabinet members, or the weakest?

* Journalistic lecture at Hidayatullah School of Economic (STIE) Depok