The President and market trust

The President and market trust

From Neraca

As a layman, I was startled to read in Neraca, June 8, a
report Habibie: Market trust should not be connected with the
Cabinet and himself.

I know and understand that officials in the economic-monetary
field, as well as other relevant experts, are at their wit's end
and have no course of action left to overcome the monetary
crisis. The latest action, Bank Indonesia's certificates with
their high interest rates, has not shown any signs of success.

People refer to the X factor outside the current problems. I
think that factor is none other than the political factor. Pros
and cons with regard to President Habibie apart, the presidential
post is a political post, so his opinion that the "market trust
should not be connected with the cabinet and himself", is beyond
my comprehension.

If the market trust in a country is unrelated to the president
and the cabinet, what, then, is the market trust connected with?

DEHEN BINTI

Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan