"So the requirement in the previous presidential regulation that a deputy minister should be someone occupying the structural position of echelon IA no longer applies," Julian said.Jakarta (ANTARA News) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has revised Presidential Regulation No.47/2009 on the formation and organization of state ministries so that the appointment of new deputy ministers would not be hampered.
Presidential spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha at the presidential office here on Monday said the presidential regulation was issued on October 13, 2011 and replaced by Presidential Regulation No.76/2011.
Julian said in the previous regulation, it was said in article 70 that deputy ministers should be career officials who had reached the structural rank of echelon IA.
This article in the old regulation which had prevented the appointment of Anggoto Abimanyu as deputy finance minister and Fahmi Idris as deputy health minister in the past no longer appeared in the new regulation.
"So the requirement in the previous presidential regulation that a deputy minister should be someone occupying the structural position of echelon IA no longer applies," Julian said.
Therefore, he said , the appointment by President Yudhoyono of 13 new deputy ministers would be free of controversy because the regulation and administrative requirement had been revised.
According to him, all new deputy ministers whom the president has picked were civil servants at several ministries or lecturers at some universities.
"Therefore there should be no controversy about the appointment of the prospective candidates for deputy ministers because the requirements have been revised," Julian said.
He explained that the revision was based on the principle that the position of deputy minister was different from those of secretary general and director general which were positions for career bureaucrats.(*)
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