KNews.id- In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic and the search for victims of the Sriwijaya Air SJ 182 plane crash on the Jakarta-Pontianak route, a foreign media report regarding President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) emerged with a surprising statement. The Nikkei Asia report notes the comments of President Jokowi’s officials and ministers on Indonesia’s current government. One of the ministers admitted that he was annoyed with President Jokowi’s behavior.
The minister even called President Jokowi a ‘person full of contradictions’ . The minister’s statement was written in the Nikkei Asia report about President Jokowi’s big dreams.
The author of the article highlighted President Jokowi’s ambition to build a new capital city in Kalimantan, which began in 2019. President Jokowi’s decision to continue the new state capital (IKN) project in East Kalimantan is said to have made the ministers confused. They shook their heads in despair, although they were not surprised by President Jokowi’s decision.
“Jokowi doesn’t like analysis; He is happy with the actions and decisions, “said one of the officials.
The official said that President Jokowi had never built infrastructure that was planned in detail so that it was feasible to boost the economy of a region.
“On the other hand, he only encourages projects based on the areas he visits,” said the official, alluding to President Jokowi’s blusukan action.
President Jokowi believes that the nation’s capital city, which was built with a budget of up to Rp. 466 trillion, will drive equitable development in Indonesia.
Unfortunately, there is no visible economic impact on the IKN development. In fact, the Indonesian economy has deteriorated further due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The author of the report said the construction of the IKN presented the best and the worst side of President Jokowi.
“On the one hand, he is ambitious, focuses on building the necessary infrastructure and is very easy to attract foreign investors,” said the author.
“On the other hand, Jokowi is impulsive, impatient with experts and tends to prioritize launching interesting project ideas in the media rather than pushing for reforms,” ​​he continued.
The report, which was uploaded on Wednesday, September 16, 2020, also mentions that a minister was annoyed at President Jokowi.
“Inspired but irritated by Jokowi, one of his ministers told me, this is his way of understanding the president who is ‘full of contradictions’,” said the writer again.
The author of the Nikkei Asia report also compared IKN with the capitals of other countries such as Brasilia in Brazil, Canberra in Australia, and Naypitaw in Myanmar.
According to the author, the location chosen by President Jokowi for the IKN is quite strange because it is 1,300 kilometers from Jakarta and separated by the sea. In fact, other countries mostly chose locations that were still within reach of the old lural capitals.
“Jokowi’s leadership is not just a story about personal lurali. He struggled amidst the fundamental contradictions of the vast and diverse Indonesian Nation, which were forged in a hurry 75 years ago within the arbitrary boundaries of the Dutch colony, “the author said.
“Jokowi is caught between democracy and authoritarianism, Islam and luralism, market openness and protectionism,” he concluded. (AHM)
Source: PikiranRakyat
