JAKARTA (Reuters) -&nbsp;Indonesia&nbsp;President&nbsp;Joko Widodo announced a minor cabinet reshuffle of six positions on Monday, including a&nbsp;new&nbsp;communications&nbsp;minister&nbsp;whose predecessor is on trial accused of accepting $1.14 million in illegal kickbacks.
Budi Arie Setiadi, a deputy&nbsp;minister&nbsp;for villages, replaces Johnny G. Plate, who was arrested in May of taking payments from companies linked to a programme to build telecommunications&nbsp;towers and bring internet to thousands of villages.
Johnny, who denies wrongdoing, faces life imprisonment if found guilty of corruption in a project that saw an estimated 8 trillion rupiah ($534.94 million) of state losses.
He was the fifth&nbsp;minister&nbsp;in the&nbsp;president's two administrations to be charged with corruption.
The&nbsp;new&nbsp;communications&nbsp;minister, Budi, founded a volunteer group that assisted in the 2014 election campaign of Jokowi, as the&nbsp;president&nbsp;is known.
Jokowi on Monday announced&nbsp;new&nbsp;deputy&nbsp;ministers for foreign affairs, village affairs, religious affairs,&nbsp;communications&nbsp;and state-owned enterprises. He also appointed two&nbsp;new&nbsp;members to his special advisory board.
Jokowi told reporters&nbsp;after&nbsp;their swearing-in ceremony that Budi would be tasked with looking into artificial intelligence and data protection, adding the corruption case would be resolved and completion of the telecommunications&nbsp;towers project must be prioritised.
($1 = 14,955.0000 rupiah)
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(Reporting by Stanley Widianto; Editing by Martin Petty)

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