Indonesian President Joko Widodo's new Cabinet is taking shape, with some well-known business figures set to join his team as he pledges to put the world's fourth most-populous country on path to become a $7 trillion economy by 2045.
The president, who was sworn in for a second and final five-year term in office on Sunday, is widely expected to include professionals, key opposition figures and industrialists to his Cabinet.
Jokowi, as the president is known, met with several high profile visitors on Monday, some of whom said they'd been asked to join the Cabinet: Nadiem Makarim, co-founder of Indonesia's first startup unicorn Gojek, resigned from his company and said he will take up a Cabinet post; Mohammad Mahfud Mahmodin, a former Constitutional Court judge, said he was offered a ministerial post; Erick Thohir, a successful businessman who spearheaded the president's election campaign team, confirmed he was offered a Cabinet post related to the economy without providing further detail; and Wishnutama Kusubandio, co-founder of PT Net Mediatama Televisi, was also offered a Cabinet position.