Another day, another delay

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo again delayed the announcement of his Cabinet lineup on Wednesday night, prompting speculation that he was wrangling with the leaders of political parties in his coalition who were insisting on nominating problematic candidates.

After hours of speculation on Wednesday evening, news broke that President Jokowi would announce his Cabinet lineup at Tanjung Priok Port in North Jakarta.

Preparations for the lavish event at Dock 302, container Terminal 3 of Tanjung Priok, started on Wednesday afternoon with workers constructing a stage at the location.

The Presidential Palace media relations division had bused journalists to the location in the afternoon. Jokowi was expected to make the announcement at 7 p.m.

However, the President and his entourage did not turn up at the location until 7:30 p.m., when workers started to switch off strobe lights on the stage.

Earlier in the day, Jokowi said he wanted to announce the Cabinet as soon as possible after dropping the names of eight candidates deemed problematic by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK).

“[I] of course want to work fast; but what if [working] fast later brings the wrong result? [Working] fast and right. That’s the idea,” he said during a press conference on Wednesday at 12 p.m.

Jokowi said he had sent a new list to the KPK with names of candidates to replace the eight not recommended by the antigraft body.

“Frankly speaking, we sent it [the list] to the KPK and there are eight names that are not allowed.”

The KPK has revealed that it advised Jokowi not to appoint some candidates on the 43-name shortlist.

Jokowi also denied that he had to fend off political pressure and lobbying from political parties.

But events soon after Jokowi canceled his Cabinet lineup announcement indicated intense negotiations were still ongoing.

• Jokowi abruptly calls off announcing his Cabinet
• KPK deems 8 candidates for new Cabinet as problematic

The former head of Jokowi’s transition team, Rini Soemarno, and former team member Hasto Kristiyanto, who had also been touted as ministerial candidates, arrived at Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) chairwoman Megawati Soekarnoputri’s private residence in Central Jakarta soon after the announcement was called off.

Rini’s sedan was seen leaving the residence 20 minutes later.

When asked why Jokowi had postponed the announcement, Rini said: “It was because [he] is still waiting for the House [of Representatives regarding changes in the Cabinet structure].”

Newly inaugurated commander of the Presidential Security Detail (Paspampres), Maj. Gen. Andika Perkasa, who is tasked with protecting Jokowi at all events, also visited Megawati’s residence. His presence fueled speculation that Jokowi had already made an impromptu visit to see Megawati.

In an interview with MetroTV on Wednesday evening, Vice President Jusuf Kalla quickly denied that friction had occurred between Jokowi and elite figures in his coalition, particularly Megawati.

Kalla said the decision to delay the announcement was taken to ensure that the pair could consider many issues, including the expertise and track records of ministerial candidates, before making a final decision. “That needs time,” Kalla said.

Jokowi also continued to summon a number of figures, including some who had been touted as ministerial candidates.

Among them were NasDem Party executive and former Home Ministry secretary-general Siti Nurbaya Bakar, former deputy finance minister Bambang Brodjonegoro, former director general of elementary and secondary eduction at the Education Ministry, Indra Djati Sidi, as well as three academics: Andalas University state administrative law professor Saldi Isra, University of Indonesia public policy expert Andrinof Chaniago and Gadjah Mada University rector Pratikno.

After her meeting with Jokowi, Siti, who was touted to be the home minister, said she was ready to accept any position offered.

“I was asked about the culture of our bureaucracy and how to improve the organization of our central and local [administrations].”

Direct and Indirect Speech

A.Statement

According to articles in above, there are two type of statement in reported speech:

a.       Direct : including the expertise and track records of ministerial candidates, before making a final decision. “That needs time,” Kalla said.

Indirect : Kalla explain that record of miniterial candidates to final decision needs more time.

b.      Direct : After her meeting with Jokowi, Siti, who was touted to be the home minister, said she was ready to accept any position offered.

Indirect : Siti explain that after she was meeting with Jokowi, she was ready to accept position offered.

B. Imperative  

At the command line, direct and indirect sentences are divided into positive and imperative sentences negative imperative sentences. At the command line needs to be added to in the next sentence. The example of imperative positive sentences in reported speech:

a.       Direct: He told his friend,” i have new car”

Indirect : He told his friend that he had a new car.

b.      Direct : She said ,” i work in a factory”

Indirect : She said that she worked in a factory.

C. Question

Questions become statements. The reporting verb say changes into ask, want to know, wonder...

a.       Direct : “Where have you been?" he said.

Indirect:  He asked me where I had been.

b.      Direct : “What time did it start?" he said.

Indirect : He wanted to know what time it had started.

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Next threath : Scrapping direct presidential polls

Prabowo’s coalition plans to transfer power to elect president to MPR. If this happens , it would be a return to the New Order era.

Indonesia’s hard-won democracy, which emerged from the bloody reform movement of 1998 that ended Soeharto’s three decades of dictatorship, has never faced a critical challenge — until today.

After snatching the people’s right to elect their local leaders through a controversial Regional Elections Law passed on Friday, the coalition of losing presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto is suspected of planning an even more sinister plot.

This time around, the Red-and-White Coalition is seeking to scrap direct presidential elections and transfer the people’s political right to elect their national leader to the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR).

Presidential elections carried out by political and group representatives in the MPR will resemble those practiced during Soeharto’s New Order era.

The coalition, which will hold the majority of seats in the next composition of the House of Representatives, will do so by amending the 1945 Constitution.

The plan to strengthen the MPR as well as to amend the Constitution was officially announced during a House plenary meeting last week.

Puan Maharani, who leads the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) faction in the House, confirmed Prabowo’s supporters were ready to mobilize the plan.

“The demise of direct regional elections may lead to indirect presidential elections. But we don’t want that to happen, do we?” the daughter of PDI-P chairwoman Megawati Soekarnoputri said.

Puan also said that she had heard rumors of a plan to revise the MPR’s internal regulation, to allow the assembly to impeach president-elect Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.

A document, believed to be a draft amendment to the MPR regulation, was circulating over the weekend.

Several lawmakers who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue confirmed the validity of the document.

The draft contains revisions to articles 99, 105, 110 and 112, which detail the necessary procedures to impeach a president upon the recommendation of the House.

Article 99, for example, stipulates that the MPR can impeach a president based on a recommendation from the House, if the Constitutional Court rules that the president has committed a crime such as treason, corruption or other serious misconduct.

A president can be impeached if he or she is deemed “unfit to carry out the duties of his/her office”.

Articles 105 to 112 elaborate upon the mechanism to appoint the vice president to assume the presidency following the president’s impeachment.

Lawmakers from the coalition that endorsed the Jokowi-Jusuf Kalla presidential ticket raised their concerns about such a possibility, as the MPR is currently revising its internal regulation as mandated by the newly passed Legislative Institutions Law (MD3).

Such a revision would restore the MPR to its historic position as the most-powerful state institution, invested with the authority to “review” the performance of leaders of inferior state institutions, including the office of the president.

Hayono Isman, a member of the patron council in President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s Democratic Party, said the possibility of the next president being elected indirectly via the MPR was growing.

“If the Red-and-White Coalition controls the MPR, it will be easy for them to amend the 1945 Constitution. The public can be bullied by the MPR,” he said on Saturday.

Aburizal Bakrie, chairman of the Golkar Party, the biggest member of the Red-and-White Coalition, acknowledged the plan.

Aburizal even stated that the coalition planned to revise 122 laws.

“We must revise the laws to bring them in line with the plan to amend the Constitution,” he said.

Ikrar Nusa Bhakti, a political researcher at the National Science Institute, said reinstating indirect presidential elections was almost certainly Prabowo’s ultimate goal.

“Prabowo must have realized that it would be difficult for him to win via a direct election. So, he will forcibly destroy the system and return it to the New Order style,” he said.

Indonesia has enjoyed direct presidential elections since 2004, when Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was elected president in a popular vote.

ACTIVE :

1.      The Red-and-White Coalition is seeking to scrap direct presidential elections

This sentence is called active voice because The Red and White Coalition as a subject of a sentence doing action. And as a verb is seeking. This type of a sentence is present Continuous. Because the pattern of present contnuous is S+tobe+V1+ing.

2.      Prabowo’s coalition plans to transfer power to elect president to MPR.

This sentence is called active voice because Prabowo’s coalition as a subject and as a verb is plans.This type of a sentence is simple present tense, because the pattern of simple present tense is S+V1+(s/es).

3.      A document, believed to be a draft amendment to the MPR regulation, was circulating over the weekend.

This sentence is called active voice because a document as a subject and as a verb is circulating.This type of a sentence is simple past continuous tense, because the pattern of simple present tense is subject + was, were + verb1 + ing.

4.      The draft contains revisions to articles 99, 105, 110 and 112.

This sentence is called active voice because the draft as a subject and as a verb is contains. This type of a sentence is simple present tense, because the pattern of simple present tense is subject +v1+(e/es).

5.      The MPR was growing.

This sentence is called active voice because the MPR as a subject and as a verb is growing.This type of a sentence is simple past continuous tense, because the pattern of simple present tense is subject + was, were + verb1 + ing.

PASSIVE :

1.      Prabowo Subianto is suspected of planning an even more sinister plot.

This sentence is called passive voice because Prabowo Subianto as a subject , is as a tobe and suspected as v3. The pattern of passive voice above is S+tobe+v3.

2.      The president has committed a crime such as treason, corruption or other serious misconduct.

This sentence is called passive voice because The President as a subject , has as a tobe and commited as v3. The pattern of passive voice above is S+have/has+v3.

3.      A president can be impeached.

This sentence is called passive voice because a president as a subject ,  can as a modal, be as be and impeached as v3. The pattern of passive voice is S+modal+be+v3.

4.      Indonesia has enjoyed direct presidential elections since 2004.

This sentence is called passive voice because Indonesia as a subject , has as a subject, and  enjoyed as v3. The pattern of passive voice is S+have/has+v3.

5.      The public can be bullied by the MPR,” he said on Saturday.

This sentence is called passive voice because the public as a subject ,  can as a modal, be as be and bullied as v3. The pattern of passive voice is S+modal+be+v3.

NAME  : Desi Nuri Novitasari Pertiwi

CLASS : 3SA05

NPM     : 11611882