Two Muslim parties on Sunday threatened to withdraw their support for Indonesia's president-elect Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono if he chooses cabinet members of whom they disapprove.
Yudhoyono said Sunday that he was yet to decide on his ministerial appointments, but that he would bear the threats in mind.
"I have not yet taken a decision on who will sit in the cabinet," Yudhoyono told journalists at his residence in Cikeas, south of Jakarta.
Yudhoyono said he would consider the warnings if there were "factual evidence" which showed a potential candidate was unsuitable.
Two Muslim parties which supported the former general's presidential bid, the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) and the Crescent and Star Party (PBB), have warned Yudhoyono they could withdraw their support depending on who is chosen as cabinet ministers.
Yudhoyono won the September election by a wide margin but faces a formidable coalition of major parties, including the ruling Golkar and incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri's Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle in parliament.
Prosperous Justice Party chairman Tifatul Sembiring told the Detikcom online news service that his party has already sent some "input" on ministerial appointments to Yudhoyono and his vice president-elect Yusuf Kalla.
Sembiring said his party would be unhappy with any "ministerial candidates who are the extension of the hands of the IMF and also debtors of IBRA."
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) helped co-ordinate a five billion dollar aid package to help Indonesia overcome the 1997 economic crash.
Megawati, echoing many Indonesian economists, has accused the world fund of almost bankrupting the country's economy by proposing faulty policies.
The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA), dissolved earlier this year, had been tasked with recovering state assets from major debtors, including banks closed by the government at the onset of the crisis.
Crescent and Star Party deputy chairman Sahar Hasan told the Antara news agency that his party was considering withdrawing its support for Yudhoyono because it deems that many of the economists he is considering for cabinet as being pro-International Monetary Fund.
Yudhoyono said the cabinet would be announced a few hours after he was sworn in as Indonesia's sixth president on October 20.