Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Chief Economic Minister Hatta Rajasa has called on the people not to speculate over the Merpati Nusantara Airlines` MA-60 which crashed in Kaimana Bay, West Papua, on Saturday.

"Don`t make different speculations but look at its main problem," the coordinating minister for economic affairs said after attending a coordination meeting on air resources here on Tuesday.

He said that the main problem was to investigate the real cause of the crash of the plane which took place in the Kaiman Bay in Papua.

"The problem is that the plane had crashed. And we have to investigate its causes. That`s why we have to wait for the investigation results of the National Committee of Transportation Safety (KNKT)," he said.

An online media is reported to have a story about an allegation that a special presidential staff was involved in the marked up purchase of MA-60 plane.

(SYS/A014)

Editor: Suryanto
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