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        Indonesian President Appoints Technocrats to Top Economic Posts

   by Reuters

   Indonesia's new president on Sunday appointed professional technocrats
   to lead the top economic ministries and implement much-needed reforms
   to deal with costly fuel subsidies, cooling investment and the
   country's creaky infrastructure.

   Joko Widodo unveiled a cabinet of 34 ministers that was filled with
   political appointees and last-minute replacements, reflecting the many
   compromises necessary to maintain a fragile coalition and have a team
   seen as free of graft.

   Widodo, who took office last Monday, appointed former state-owned
   enterprises minister Sofyan Djalil as coordinating minister for
   economics and promoted vice finance minister Bambang Brodjonegoro to
   head the finance ministry.

   The president named the chief executive of state-owned defense firm PT
   Pindad, Sudirman Said, as energy and mineral resources minister, and a
   former head of auto-assembler PT Astra International Rini Soemarno
   Soewandi as state-owned enterprises minister.

   Retno Marsudi, the current ambassador to the Netherlands, will take
   over as foreign minister.

   Widodo's cabinet picks will be sworn-in on Monday.
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