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August 25, 2025 | 09:45 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Golkar Party Chairperson and Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Bahlil Lahadalia said helium was unaware of the protestation that broke retired astatine the House of Representatives (DPR) gathering successful Senayan, Jakarta, connected Monday, August 25, 2025.
Bahlil explained that his deficiency of consciousness was owed to being occupied with authoritative duties passim the day.
“Day-long meeting. Haven’t caught up with the information,” helium said astatine the Presidential Palace Complex, Central Jakarta, connected Monday.
Bahlil added that helium had not work immoderate quality during the gathering and truthful could not remark connected the demonstration. “What should I respond to? Even the protesters themselves don’t know,” helium remarked.
Earlier today, President Prabowo Subianto summoned respective ministers, including Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Zulkifli Hasan, and Bahlil, to a constricted furniture gathering connected the economical sector.
According to Bahlil, the gathering focused connected the 2025 economical programme and maturation prospects for 2026.
One of the government’s cardinal programs discussed was the program to instal powerfulness poles to grow energy entree to 5,700 villages and 4,400 hamlets. “This indispensable beryllium completed by 2029–2030,” Bahlil said.
State Secretary Minister Prasetyo Hadi delivered a akin effect erstwhile asked astir the protest, saying that the palace had not been monitoring the developments. Instead, the government’s absorption that time was connected the authorities honors ceremony.
“We haven’t monitored the protest. Today we are focusing connected honoring those who person contributed to the nation,” Prasetyo said astatine the State Palace.
During the ceremony, President Prabowo awarded 141 authorities honors to a fig of salient figures. Among the recipients were DPR Speaker and PDI-P Central Executive Board Chair Puan Maharani, DPR Deputy Speaker and Gerindra Secretary General Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, and People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) Chairperson Ahmad Muzadi, besides a elder Gerindra politician. The 3 were bestowed with the Bintang Republik Indonesia Utama.
Meanwhile, the objection successful beforehand of the DPR gathering was triggered by nationalist outrage implicit a important wage summation for legislators for the 2024–2029 term.
A full of 580 lawmakers reportedly received a nett wage of astir Rp100 cardinal per month, mostly owed to a caller lodging allowance of Rp50 million.
The protestation escalated into clashes successful the day aft constabulary fired teardrop state astatine demonstrators from the question calling itself the “Indonesian People’s Revolution.” The assemblage dispersed arsenic protesters fled from the teardrop gas.
Novali Panji Nugroho and Sultan Abdurrahman contributed to the penning of this article.
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