Jokowi's Campaign Chief Rules Out Future Indonesia Cabinet Role
Tycoon Thohir wants to return to his media, sports businesses
Erick Thohir, who steered the successful re-election campaign of Indonesian president Joko Widodo, ruled out joining the cabinet and plans to return to running businesses ranging from a radio station to an English soccer club.
“I don’t want to be in cabinet. I want to go back to being a businessman,” said Thohir, a former shareholder of FC Internazionale Milano SpA , or Inter Milan, D.C. United and the Philadelphia 76ers. “It’s been a tough three years doing the Asian Games and now the election.”