JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia's parliamentary meeting plans to propose the president's removal because they believe he does not properly support the government's policies, an investigation magazine Tempo reported on Monday, an unnamed source.
Earlier this month, Parliament passed new rules to assess and fire public officials appointed by the Legislature, covering top court and institutional leaders such as police, military and anti-corruption commissions.
Deputy Speaker of Congress, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, also a senior member of President Prabowo Subianto, told Reuters there is no plan to remove the central bank governor .
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Tempo reported that some new regulations would be proposed to the president by some members, who removed Indonesian Governor Perry Warjiyo and cites several members of the Prabowo coalition and a close aide, none of them were named.
“Warjiyo is considered not to cooperate with 'burden sharing' or to work with the government to deal with economic issues,” Tempo wrote.
Warjiyo did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesman for the president said he had no information about such a plan.
Other members of the ruling coalition contacted by Reuters also did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Prabowo has a majority in parliament.
Warjiyo has served as BI Governor since 2018. He was reappointed in 2023 and his term will be held in 2028. He was nominated by Prabowo's predecessor Joko Widodo and was approved by parliament to have no objection.
(Reports by Ananda Teresia, Gayatri Suroyo and Stefanno Sulaiman; Editor of John Mair)
