WHO will replace Boediono as Coordinating Minister of the Economy was still not known up until last week. The mouth of President Yudhoyono is still tightly closed although several names have been touted by the media as fitting to replace the senior minister. Aburizal Bakrie, now the Coordinating Minister of People’s Welfare, and Purnomo Yusgiantoro, Minister of Energy & Mineral Resources are envisaged to take over Boediono’s place.

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