Hongkong – Despite feeling uneasy over the recent political turmoil in Indonesia, the head of the International Monetary Fund yesterday said he was willing to work with any new policymakers chosen by the nation.

IMF Managing Director Horst Koehler said the Indonesian Parliament's efforts to oust the country's first democratically-elected President Abdurrahman Wahid were unfortunate.

"It's a tragedy clearly because we should not forget that President Abdurrahman is the first democratically-elected President in Indonesia," he said in an interview with Dow Jones Newswires. But the IMF was pleased to see the progress made in the country's political system and would work with any new democratically-elected government, he added.

"We will wait for the outcome," he said. "We hope that it is a democratically sound, clean process. And we will work with the institutions and the people that are legitimised by this process." The IMF's lending programme in Indonesia has been suspended since December over the government's failure to implement past agreements.