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Mutual Assistance Cabinet
The Mutual Assistance Cabinet () was the Indonesian Cabinet which served under President Megawati Sukarnoputri and Vice President Hamzah Haz from 9 August 2001 until 20 October 2004. The Cabinet was formed after Megawati and Hamzah were elected President and Vice President at the Special Session of the People's Consultative Assembly in July 2001.
Changes.
- 11 March 2004: Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono resigned from the Cabinet. Hari Sabarno took over the Coordinating Ministry of Politics and Security whilst continuing as Minister of Home Affairs.
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of national unity, and she rarely actively intervened in government business. Under her tenure, the Mutual Assistance Cabinet () helped govern the country. It included Megawati's successor, the retired General Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The military, disgraced at the time of Suharto's fall, regained much of its influence. Corruption continued to be pervasive, though Megawati herself was seldom blamed for this.
Some Indonesian scholars explained Megawati's apparent passivity in office by reference to Javanese mythology. Megawati, they said, saw her father,