Environment minister responds to Jokowi’s criticism

Siti said on Monday she also never received any |complaints from any businessman about regulations she had issued.
“No, I never heard that they [businesspeople] |complained about regulations. Please, let me know, about what?” said Siti in Jakarta on Monday as reported by kontan.co.id.
Earlier, President Jokowi criticised Minister Siti and Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Ignasius Jonan |for issuing ministerial regulations that contravened the government's deregulation program to improve the ease of doing business in the country.
“What we need to do is improve the ease of doing business in this country. Ministerial regulations should always refer to the objective. They should not scare investors away,” Jokowi said during the Cabinet meeting on Monday. Siti said she was not warned by President Jokowi before he expressed his criticism during the Cabinet meeting.
However, she said she would soon check the ministerial regulations she had issued that the President believed had disrupted the investment climate. “I will check, I need to study this because the statement came from the |president,” she added