"Although State Minister for State Enterprises Mustafa Abubakar is sick in hospital, his office is operating as usual," Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Hatta Rajasa said here on Thursday.
Hatta said he would appoint someone to perform Mustafa Abubakar`s main duties on a temporary basis.
"We are not yet considering replacing the ailing BUMN minister," Hatta said.
Hatta added that he still wanted to see what the tentative accountability would look like.
"However the important thing is that the performance of BUMN will continue to run as usual, although its minister is ill in hospital," Hatta said.
Minister Mustafa Abubakar was admitted to Medistra Hospital in South Jakarta on Tuesday at 11.00 a.m., August 23, 2011.
"He is being treated in the ICU room," Mustafa`s adjutant, Faisal Halimi, said at the hospital.
Faisal said Mustafa was being treated intensively.
"Doctors still can not establish the cause of the disease. But Mustafa`s health condition is getting better," he said.
Earlier, on Tuesday at 03.30 a.m., Mustafa was treated at MMC Hospital in Kuningan, Jakarta.
Mustafa was appointed to the post of state enterprises minister in October 2009.
Born in Pidie, Aceh, on October 15, 1949, Mustafa was president director of the National Logistics Board (Bulog) before becoming a cabinet minister.
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