Jakarta – People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Speaker Amien Rais said Tuesday the government should stop working with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2003, Antara reported.

"The 'dream team' cabinet cannot meet our expectations and is too dependenton the IMF, which gives us wrong diognoses and remedies. Indonesia should say good bye to the IMF," he said during a gathering to welcome year 2003.

Amien argued that the government's cooperation with the IMF has failed to produce significant economic recovery. He predicted the economic condition in the country may be worse in 2003.

Indonesia has been assisted by the IMF since the downfall of the country's economic condition in 1997.