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Former finance minister famous as ‘Mr. Clean’ passes away at 77
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Final journey: Soldiers carry the coffin of former finance minister Mar'ie Muhammad at the Al-Azhar Mosque in South Jakarta on Sunday, moments before it was transported to the Tanah Kusir cemetery in South Jakarta for funeral procession. (JP/Bimo Raharjo)
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ormer finance minister Mar’ie Muhammad passed away early on Sunday in Jakarta after receiving hospital treatment for the past several weeks for pneumonia.
He was 77.
Mar’ie, who was born in Surabaya, East Java, on April 3, 1939, served as long-time civil servant with the Finance Ministry before being appointed finance minister under former president Soeharto from 1993 to 1998.
During his leadership, Mar’ie endorsed a tight fiscal policy and numerous programs to promote budget efficiency to curb rampant corruption. His efforts earned him the title “Mr. Clean”.
Mar’ie, who passed away at 1:40 a.m. on Sunday in the National Brain Center Hospital, East Jakarta, will be buried at Tanah Kusir Cemetery in South Jakarta later in the day.
In his official Twitter account, People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Speaker and National Mandate Party chairman Zulkifli Hasan expressed his condolences on the passing of Mar’ie.
“The nation has lost a clean and humble anticorruption figure. Goodbye Mr. Clean,” he said.
