Jakarta – A case involving the International Crisis Group's director, American Sidney Jones, has nothing to do with freedom of expression but is simply an administrative matter, foreign affairs minister Hassan Wirajuda said here on Friday.

"Since her case is only an administrative matter, I do not want it to be publicized," Hassan said after installing three Indonesian consuls general, as well as ministry spokesman Marty Natalegawa as the new director general of the foreign cooperation bureau.

He said that when the relevant institutions gave Jones a permit to live and work in Indonesia, they did not ask for the ministry's opinion or recommendation.

"Thus, the possibility that her work permit will not be extended is not the responsibility of the foreign affairs ministry," Hassan said, adding that the United States had not objected to the possibility of Jones' work permit not being extended.