JOKOWI CALLED ON TO CRACK DOWN ON OIL MAFIA

By Andi Abdussalam
Jakarta, Sept 14 (Antara) - President-elect Joko Widodo, better known as Jokowi, is urged to assign clean ministers from professional circles and fight against oil and gas mafia which controls the country's oil business.        "We hope people appointed as ministers by Jokowi are clean figures from professional circles who have integrity and capability," Director of Indonesia Monitoring Center (IMC) A.H. Wakil Kamal told a press conference on Friday.         Kamal said that Jokowi should appoint clean people to fill in ministerial posts in the ministry of energy and mineral resources, the ministry of state-owned enterprises and other ministries on economic affairs.         "These important positions should be filled in with professionals not with people coming from political parties. These ministries are prone to being used as sources of political funds," he said.         Jokowi should keep distance from those allegedly involved in oil mafia in an effort to create a clean government. Oil mafia operating in the country so far should instead be eliminated.