Silmy Karim, a businessman with a track record of restructuring ailing state-owned enterprises, was inaugurated on Wednesday as the country’s new immigration director general, as President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo looks to foreign investment to fuel the country’s economic recovery.

Silmy, the former president director of PT Krakatau Steel and the first businessman to occupy the office, has been asked to cut the bureaucratic red tape in immigration services.

At Wednesday’s inauguration ceremony, Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly said the immigration office was facing increasingly “dynamic and demanding” challenges that came with the relaxation of global travel restrictions.

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courtesy of THE JAKARTA POST

by Dio Suhenda (The Jakarta Post)

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