REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo will likely announce his cabinet on Wednesday, two days after his inauguration was held on Oct. 20.

"It could be today (Oct. 22) in the afternoon, evening, or tonight," President Jokowi stated after meeting officials from the Jakarta Capital Region at the Merdeka State Palace here on Wednesday (23/10).

However, Jokowi has not yet confirmed about the location from where he will make the announcement, whether in the State Palace or other venues, such as at the Pluit Reservoir in North Jakarta, Tanjung Priok Port in North Jakarta, or at the Tanah Abang wholesale market in Central Jakarta.

After the inauguration, President Jokowi had been urged by the public to soon announce his cabinet, so that he can start conducting his administrative tasks.

Earlier, on Tuesday (Oct. 21), some prospective ministers were called to the State Palace by President Jokowi.

President Jokowi involved the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) to scrutinize the track records of his ministerial candidates.

When separately interviewed, the Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) praised the involvement of the KPK and PPATK in the evaluation process as a positive decision taken by Jokowi.

"Jokowi's move has to be viewed as a positive step. Jokowi needs the PPATK and KPK," ICW's Court Monitoring and Legal Division's researcher Donal Fariz noted in a discussion here on Tuesday (Oct. 21).

Donal stated that Jokowi could not check the track records of the ministerial candidates who he would choose himself.

"He also did not know about the financial transactions that the candidates might have made or the judicial processes implicating them," Donal remarked.

So, he denounced the accusations made that Jokowi was merely promoting himself through his decision to involve the PPATK and KPK in selecting his future cabinet members.

"The decision is good with regard to corruption eradication," Donal claimed.

He pointed out that Jokowi faces the biggest challenge of how to optimally utilize the information he received from the PPATK and KPK.

"It would pose a problem if he later decides to select a candidate who received red marks from the PPATK and KPK, which might make the process of scrutiny a mere formality," he added.

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