No Cabinet reshuffle, for now: Yudhoyono

Ending weeks of speculation, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono made it clear on Friday that he would not reshuffle his Cabinet.

For now, at least.

While the president said that he hoped that his decision would help ministers stay focused, Yudhoyono did not guarantee that he would not reshuffle the Cabinet before his term of office ends in October 2014.

“I have no plans for a reshuffle at the moment,” Yudhoyono told the press on the sidelines of an impromptu visit to the Tanjung Pasir fish auction centre in Tangerang, Banten.

“I am not saying that’s until 2014, but at this point, there will be no reshuffle. This is to make things certain,” Yudhoyono added in clarification.

Political observers and politicians have been predicting that the President would use the resignation of Andi Mallarangeng, who resigned as youth and sports minister after he was named a suspect in a graft investigation, to reshuffle his ministers.

The president was expected to