FACTBOX: Five facts about Indonesia's Hatta Rajasa

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's State Secretary, Hatta Rajasa, said on Saturday he would have an economic post in President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's next cabinet.

He did not elaborate, but there has been speculation that he could be appointed Co-ordinating Minister for the Economy.

Yudhoyono, a reform-driven ex-general who won a second, five-year term in presidential elections in July, is due to announce his cabinet next week, following his inauguration on October 20.

Here are five facts about Hatta Rajasa:

* Hatta Rajasa, 55, is a South Sumatran-born politician from the Muslim-based National Mandate Party (PAN) and a loyal ally of President Yudhoyono.

* Rajasa served as transport minister in Yudhoyono's cabinet, but was removed in 2007 following several transport disasters including a Garuda Airlines crash in Yogyakarta and an Adam Air crash off South Sulawesi, which killed more than 100 people in total.

Yudhoyono then appointed him state secretary. Rajasa had also served in former President Megawati Sukarnoputri's cabinet as technology and research minister.

* Rajasa has a reputation for protectionist policies, for opposing privatization, and for favoring domestic over foreign investors.

For example, when he was transport minister, he limited foreign budget airlines to serving the main city routes in Indonesia, to the advantage of the less-competitive local airlines.

* Rajasa is a petroleum-engineering graduate from Bandung Institute of Technology.

He was also an advisor to the Indonesian Petroleum and Geothermal Drilling Association, a member of the International Petroleum Association, and founder of the Natural Resource Energy and Environment Foundation.

* His party, PAN, won about 6 percent of the vote in the parliamentary elections in April, similar to its performance in 2004.

(Reporting by Olivia Rondonuwu; Editing by Sara Webb)