Sri Mulyani Asks Her Subordinates to Maintain Neutrality Ahead of the 2024 Election: We are Governed by Laws and Etiquette

"Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Asks Her Subordinates to Maintain Neutrality Ahead of the 2024 Election: "We Are Governed by Laws and Etiquette""

Dream - Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati reminded her employees to maintain their neutrality during the political year of the General Election (Pemilu) 2024. Not only about neutrality, the former Director of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) also hopes that the employees of the Ministry of Finance (Kemenkeu) will maintain their attitude during the political contestation in the country during the election.

"In the election year, let's maintain our attitude, neutrality is something that has become a necessity.""

The translation of the given text from 'Bahasa' to 'English' while preserving the HTML tags is as follows: Sri Mulyani's words at the Leadership Working Meeting of DJBC, in Sentul, Bogor, Thursday, January 25, 2024.

According to Sri Mulyani, every employee of the Ministry of Finance has the right to determine their choice during the 2024 Election. However, she hopes that the preferences they have will only be shown when they are secretly voting in front of the ballot box for the 2024 Election.

Sri Mulyani Asks Her Subordinates to Maintain Neutrality Ahead of the 2024 Election: We are Governed by Laws and Etiquette

"You can have any preferences, do it when you are at the ballot box." (Attitude) That is a value that shows that we as humans are governed by laws and regulated by etiquette."

Continue Sri Mulyani.

"Previously, President Jokowi expressed his views on there being no rules prohibiting state officials from favoring and campaigning to support a particular pair of presidential candidates in the 2024 Elections. This assessment has received criticism from many parties. The president's statement was in response to Minister of Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Mahfud MD's statement regarding the number of ministers in the Indonesia Maju cabinet who openly support specific candidates even though they are not part of the campaign team."

Statement Jokowi

"It is the democratic right of every person, every minister is the same, the president is allowed to campaign, the president is allowed to take sides," said Jokowi at Halim Perdanakusuma Jakarta, quoted from Liputan6.com, Thursday, January 25, 2024."

Jokowi added, if there is a minister or himself as president campaigning, then it is prohibited to use state facilities. "But the most important thing is during the campaign, it is not allowed to use state facilities," she emphasized.

Message from Sri Mulyani to Preserve Neutrality

"Different from Jokowi, Finance Minister (Menkeu) Sri Mulyani Indrawati urges her subordinates to maintain neutrality ahead of the 2024 General Elections (Pemilu)."

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