Deputy Minister of P2MI Declines to Comment on Concurrent Position Ban
Deputy Minister of Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (P2MI) Christina Aryani declined to comment on her concurrent position as a commissioner of PT Semen Indonesia Tbk. When approached after a working meeting with House of Representatives Commission IX, Christina turned her face away when asked for a response and hurried off with a smile.
The Golkar Party politician is just one of dozens of deputy ministers in the Red and White Cabinet who still hold supervisory seats in state-owned enterprises. This persists nearly a year after Constitutional Court Decision Number 128/PUU-XXIII/2025, which affirmed the prohibition on concurrent positions for deputy ministers.
In its ruling, the Constitutional Court emphasised that deputy ministers are state officials who are also prohibited from holding concurrent positions as commissioners or members of the board of directors in both state-owned and private companies. This prohibition was subsequently adopted in Law Number 16 of 2025 on State-Owned Enterprises, which was enacted in October last year.
Thus, the provision regarding the ban on concurrent positions is not only sourced from the Constitutional Court ruling but has also become part of the statutory regulations. Transparency International Indonesia recorded that at least 30 deputy ministers still held concurrent positions as commissioners of state-owned enterprises as of June 2026.
This number has decreased by only three compared to before the Constitutional Court ruling was read on 28 August 2025. The reduction was not due to the government implementing the ruling, but because several officials became entangled in legal cases, such as former Deputy Minister of Immigration and Corrections, Silmy Karim, who was detained by the Corruption Eradication Commission on 4 June 2026.
TII researcher Ferdian Yazid stated that state-owned enterprises actually had the opportunity to adjust to the Constitutional Court ruling through the General Meeting of Shareholders (RUPS). However, the RUPS at PLN on Thursday, 18 June 2026, did not alter the positions of Deputy Minister of State Secretary Bambang Eko Suhariyanto and Deputy Minister of Finance Suahasil Nazara as commissioners.
Ferdian assessed that the RUPS demonstrated the government had not yet followed up on the Constitutional Court ruling. “This is a bad precedent and ignores the spirit of the Constitutional Court ruling to immediately reduce the risk of conflicts of interest,” he said on 30 June 2026.