REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Deputy for Protocol, Press and Media of the Presidential Secretariat Yusuf Permana said that President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) will take office in the capital of the archipelago (IKN) from Monday (29/7/2024). Jokowi will be accompanied by First Lady Iriana Widodo on his first day in office at IKN.
“Today, Mr. President and First Lady will spend the night at the President's Office in the capital of the archipelago. Tomorrow he will take office in the President's Office in the capital of the archipelago,” Yusuf said in a statement in Jakarta, Sunday (28/7/2024).
Earlier, Yusuf said, Jokowi turned to IKN Sunday (28/7/2024). President Joko Widodo will inaugurate the Pulau Balang Bridge and review the construction of the expressway in IKN.
President Widodo will also review the development of the Presidential Office and the Presidential Palace at IKN. “Mr. Jokowi will also conduct other reviews including checking the readiness of the venue for the RI Anniversary ceremony and other supporting facilities and infrastructure,” he explained.
It is not clear whether President Jokowi will continue to take office at IKN or will return to Jakarta, running the wheel of Indonesia's government. Some time ago, RI Chief Press Officer Heru Budi Hartono also confirmed that Jokowi will take office from Sunday (28/7/2024).
“His plan on the 28th will be to formalize the tolls and review the (IKN). We together with the (PUPR Ministry) and the Presidential Secretariat prepare all the needs for Mr. President to take office at IKN,” said Head of the Indonesian Presidential Administration Heru Budi Hartono at the Presidential Palace, Jakarta, Wednesday (24/7/2024).
Heru said that the Palace side in coordination with the Ministry of PUPR is still continuing to prepare the complete infrastructure facilities for the President's Office at IKN, including filling its furniture needs. “(Procurement of) tables, furniture, lamps, chairs are all in progress,” he said.
In addition to preparing the Office of the President, he said, Setpres also continues to prepare all preparations for the 79th Anniversary of RI, which he plans to organize in two locations, namely IKN and Jakarta.
“We are certainly concentrating there to prepare all infrastructure facilities in the framework of August 17. So later after the 28th, maybe he (President Jokowi) will have a few more visits to IKN before August 17 because there is still a series of activities (independence commemoration),” Heru said.
Regarding the details of the series of celebrations for the RI anniversary, Heru said the government will soon hold a press conference at the end of July. So far, the 79th Anniversary of RI is planned to begin with a national remembrance on August 1, 2024 and then continue with a number of other agendas, among which the awarding of honorary marks by the President of RI on August 15, 2024.
President Jokowi has previously said that he is ready to take office in IKN, East Kalimantan, as soon as there is a green light signal or a sign of readiness. This he said while giving a press statement after watching the opening match of the President's Cup at Si Jalak Harupat Stadium, Bandung Regency, West Java, on Friday (19/7/2024).
“As soon as there is a green light ready, I will take office at IKN,” the president said when asked by media about readiness to be in office at IKN, based on footage received in Jakarta last Friday.
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