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GlobeAsia Names 50 Most Influential People in Indonesia

Muhamad Al Azhari
December 17, 2015 | 12:02 pm
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The cover of this month's edition of GlobeAsia magazine. (JG Photo)
The cover of this month's edition of GlobeAsia magazine. (JG Photo)

Jakarta. GlobeAsia, a sister publication of the Jakarta Globe that appears in print every month, has released a list of Indonesia's 50 most influential figures in its December issue, highlighting that the country today does not appear to have a single center of power.

President Joko Widodo; Megawati Soekarnoputri, the chief patron of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P); Vice President Jusuf Kalla; Zulkifli Hasan, the speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly; and Prabowo Subianto, the chairman of the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) are the most influential people in the country according to the magazine.

In Indonesia, "power is more diffused than it used to be with competing centers of power," GlobeAsia says in an introduction. "Old political power structures have broken down and been split apart and new structures are still forming."

These are the 20 most powerful people in Indonesia according to GlobeAsia:

1. Joko Widodo — president of Indonesia

2. Megawati Soekarnoputri — leader of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P)

3. Jusuf Kalla — vice president of Indonesia

4. Zulkifli Hasan — speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR)

5. Prabowo Subianto — chairman of the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra)

6. Aburizal Bakrie— Golkar Party chairman

7. Luhut Panjaitan — coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs

8. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono — Democratic Party chairman, former president

9. Darmin Nasution — coordinating minister for the economy

10. Rizal Ramli  — coordinating minister of maritime and mineral resources

11. Thomas Lembong — trade minister

12. Setya Novanto — recently resigned speaker of the House of Representatives

13. Surya Paloh — chairman of the National Democrat Party (Nasdem)

14. Pramono Anung — cabinet secretary

15. Arief Hidayat — Constitutional Court chief justice

16. Sutiyoso — head of the State Intelligence Agency (BIN)

17. Rini Soemarno — state-owned enterprises minister

18. B.J. Habibie —  former president

19. Puan Maharani — coordinating welfare minister

20. Irman Gusman — speaker of the Regional Representatives Council (DPD)

The full list is available in GlobeAsia's December edition.

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