The business community positively welcomed the plan to reshuffle or dismantle the cabinet of President Joko Widodo or Jokowi. The reason, the business world also felt the slow response of the ministers in facing the Covid-19 pandemic.
"With this reshuffle, there is a glimmer of hope," said Chairman of the DKI Jakarta DPD HIPPI (Indonesian Indigenous Entrepreneurs Association), Sarman Simanjorang in his statement in Jakarta, Wednesday, July 1 2020.
The threat of reshuffle was conveyed by Jokowi himself in a cabinet meeting on June 18, 2020. The threat came because Jokowi was angry and annoyed to see the workings of his ministers who were still normal, in the middle of the pandem. "What is this?" said Jokowi.
This trial was actually held closed. But 10 days later, June 28, 2020, the Palace decided to disseminate this video to the public. Only then viral.
Sarman then highlighted the minister's performance in the economic field. Some are fast, some are moderate, and some are slow. In fact, he said, when forming a cabinet, the expected figures of ministers were those who had managerial abilities and were quick to execute programs.
But with this reshuffle plan, Sarman said Jokowi's turmoil and the business world could be answered. "Hopefully the president gets the right figure and responds positively to the market," he said.
Not only Sarman, the former Deputy Governor who was also a businessman of Sandiaga Uno also responded to Jokowi's resentment to his ministers. Sandi also criticized the performance of the Jokowi's government bureaucracy during this pandemic.
"The government bureaucracy has made the national economic recovery program run very slowly, and I see that there is a lot of room for improvement," Sandi said at the Indonesia Economic Forum in Jakarta, as published in a press release on Monday, June 29, 2020.
Jokowi, said Sandi later, also expressed his disappointment that the technical ministry was still merely doing business as usual. "It was not swift in executing the program," said Sandi.
However, Jakarta State University socio-political observer, Ubedilah Badrun, assessed that Jokowi's anger actually showed the failure of the head of government to control the ministers.
"So Jokowi's angry speech is actually an emotional expression of his failure as well as chaos in controlling the ministers," Ubedilah said in his written statement, Tuesday, June 30, 2020.
The angry president's speech, according to Ubedilah Badrun, showed that there was chaos in the management of the cabinet. "It shows how chaotic the President's management is in pushing his ministers to go the extra mile in the midst of a crisis," he said.
