President Prabowo Subianto inaugurated four ministers and one deputy minister at the State Palace in Jakarta as part of a cabinet reshuffle that replaced five posts and added a new ministry for Hajj and Umrah.
The Tempo report said the appointees were Mochamad Irfan Yusuf as minister of Hajj and Umrah, Dahnil Anzar Simanjuntak as deputy minister of Hajj and Umrah, Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa as finance minister, Mukhtarudin as minister of protection of Indonesian migrant workers and Ferry Juliantono as minister of cooperatives. All five were sworn in in accordance with Islamic practice, and each pledged loyalty to Indonesia’s constitution and laws.
The reshuffle was broader than the five new appointments. State Secretary Minister Prasetyo Hadi said it replaced four ministers and one coordinating minister. The officials leaving their posts were Budi Gunawan, the coordinating minister for political and security affairs; Budi Arie, minister of cooperatives; Dito Ariotedjo, minister of youth and sports; Sri Mulyani, minister of finance; and Abdul Kadir Karding, minister of protection of Indonesian migrant workers.
The creation of a dedicated Hajj and Umrah ministry is one of the clearest structural changes in the reshuffle. The report said the new portfolio would be led by Mochamad Irfan Yusuf with Dahnil Anzar Simanjuntak as his deputy. That gives the government a separate bureaucratic home for pilgrimage administration rather than leaving the work under a broader ministry structure.
Tempo’s account also emphasized the formality of the ceremony. The newly appointed ministers recited the oath together, promising fidelity to the 1945 Constitution and to the laws and regulations of the republic. That ritual matters in Indonesian politics because it places the reshuffle within the constitutional frame rather than presenting it as a casual personnel change.
The most consequential name in the line-up was Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa, who replaced Sri Mulyani at the finance ministry. The supplied excerpt does not discuss markets or the policy direction he is expected to take, so any interpretation of the move has to stop at the personnel change itself. Still, replacing a long-serving finance minister is typically one of the most closely watched moves in any cabinet reshuffle.
The report framed the shake-up as a significant administrative reset at the start of Prabowo’s presidency. By naming new leaders for finance, migrant worker protection, cooperatives and Hajj administration all at once, the president signaled that his government wanted to move quickly on both structural and symbolic fronts. The reshuffle also gives the administration a chance to reassign responsibilities while the new ministers settle into office.
For now, the facts are simple and concrete: the president used a formal ceremony at the palace to replace key officials, create a new ministry and install a new team. The policy consequences will depend on what those ministers do next, but the political message of the reshuffle was already visible in the oath-taking line.
