Jakarta (Antara Bali) - Vice President Jusuf Kalla said the late former finance minister Mar'ie Muhammad was known as a clean and honest figure when he was in office,

"We have lost a figure was known as Mr. Clean during his term of office as finance minister," Kalla said when he paid last tribute to the late former finance minister who was laid in state at his residence in Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, on Sunday.

During his term of office, Mar'ie always worked wholeheartedly based on logic by adopting clean and honest ways, he said.

Mar'ie Muhammad passed away at the age of 77, after being treated at National Brain Center Hospital since mid November, here, Sunday.

Among VIPs who paid their last respect were former vice president Boediono, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, and former energy and mineral resource minister Sudirman Said.

Mar'ie was finance minister during the Development VI cabinet era in the 1993-1998 period under the Suharto administration. He was also taxation director general from 1988 to 1993.. (WDY)

Pewarta: Reported by Yashinta Difa

Editor : I Gusti Bagus Widyantara


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