Prabowo Declares: 'No Civil Servant Is Irreplaceable'

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - President Prabowo Subianto has again highlighted the slow pace of investment licensing in Indonesia. He made the remarks during the 19th Plenary Session of the People’s Representative Council in the Plenary Chamber of the MPR/DPR/DPD complex in Senayan, Jakarta, on Wednesday, 20 May 2026.

He said that licensing in Indonesia takes months or years, while in Malaysia it takes only two weeks. This is caused by convoluted bureaucracy and government civil servants who are lazy and idle in their work.

’The nation and the people demand fast work; let us not become a government that is relaxed and lazy, a government that says