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JAKARTA, KOMPAS TV – Gatot Nurmantyo spoke candidly about the seconds of his appointment as the sole TNI commander candidate chosen by President Joko Widodo or Jokowi.
Gatot said he was in Denmark one afternoon when the then president of RI’s DPR, Setya Novanto or generally called Setnov, contacted him.
By phone, Gatot said, Setnov made it known that President Jokowi had sent a letter to the DPR.
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In the content of the letter, President Jokowi proposed the name of Gatot Nurmantyo as the sole candidate for TNI commander.
“He said this ‘Pak Gatot, I received a letter from the president, in short, the president proposed General Gatot KSAD as the sole candidate for TNI commander,'” Gatot said after Setnov’s remarks in an interview with tvOne quoted on Friday. (9/25/2020).
After reading Jokowi’s letter of recommendation, Gatot said, Setnov wondered about the follow-up to Jokowi’s letter.
