Ryaas Rasyid should not resign

Ryaas Rasyid should not resign

The resignation of a cabinet minister cannot, of course, be
compared to that of a company executive. It is certain to have
wide-ranging consequences, all the more so since a beginning has
been made with the implementation of regional autonomy. Given
such a reality, many people are hoping that (State Minister for
Administrative Reform) Ryaas Rasyid will be willing to reconsider
his decision (to resign from the cabinet) in the bigger national
interest. For him to do so would not mean that he is being
inconsistent. No one so far doubts his personal integrity.

If or when Ryaas chooses to stay on as State Minister for
Administrative Reform, we naturally hope that he will be able to
continue to be as professional as he has always shown himself to
be thus far. That should be no problem for a man who is the
embodiment of two different worlds at the same time -- the world
of the bureaucrat and that of the academic.

-- Bisnis Indonesia, Jakarta