JAKARTA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo named a new telecommunications minister in a cabinet shake-up on Monday after the previous one was detained as part of a corruption probe linked to a project that cost the Southeast Asian country half a billion dollars in losses.

Budi Arie Setiadi succeeds Johnny G. Plate, who was arrested in May over accusations he demanded kickbacks related to a government telecom project to expand internet access.

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