Jakarta, May 3 -- Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan advised President-elect Prabowo Subianto against bringing in toxic or problematic people into his cabinet.

"To the President-elect, I say 'Don't bring toxic people into your government, as it will be very detrimental to us'," Luhut stated at the "Jakarta Future Forum: Blue Horizons, Green Growth" event in Jakarta on Friday.

Luhut said that he conveyed this message as one of the lessons he had learned after working in President Joko Widodo's cabinet for a decade.

According to Luhut, one of the issues in the government is regulations that are contrary to national interests.

"I fixed a lot of those problems," he said, adding that he believ...