"I believed the momentum is still there following the issuance of evaluation reports from the Presidential Working Unit for Development Control and Supervision (UKP4). The President could conduct a reshuffle but would not do it radically because extreme shuffling would have a huge political cost," Yunarto Wijaya from Charta Politica said here on Wednesday.
He said the cabinet reshuffle would be accompanied by small replacement of ministers from political parties.
He said there were several factors that would be used as considerations for the President to conduct a reshuffle. The first one is about the composition of ministers from political parties.
"(The question is) will the president maintain the present number of ministers from political parties or will he give a reward or a punishment on parties who are loyal and not loyal," he said.
The second factor is about Golkar Party who wish to have more ministers in the cabinet. Yunarto said that Golkar is jealous with PKS (the prosperous justice party) because Golkar that has won more votes was only given three ministerial posts.
"At least in 2010 it could demonstrate that it had power to disrupt the government," he said, adding Golkar would remain to become a determining variable.
Another factor to be considered is the ruling Democrat Party`s reception of Golkar. "Will the Democrat Party position Golkar frontally or will it embrace the party," he said.
Yunarto said the ministerial posts for political parties were predicted to be reconsidered. Several posts that have so far been filled by persons from political parties would possibly be refilled by professionals such as the minister of law and human rights.
"I think present law enforcement will be too risky if it is entrusted to a political party figure because the political party may use it as a transaction means. I think it is important to put a professional in the position as it is likely that law issues will become strong issues again 2011," he said. (*)
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