"I assume there will be talks and this will be turned around, but at the moment we have to live with this."
The suspension could in theory prevent Bekele competing at the London Olympics this summer, where the 29-year-old is expected to be one Mo Farah's chief rivals for gold over either 5,000 or 10,000m or both.
Hermens, though, does not believe the ban will last through the Games.
"I cannot imagine, that would be very silly," he said.
He feels the decision is a knee-jerk reaction from the federation after a poor performance at the World Championships in Daegu last summer.
Ethiopia finished ninth on the medal table with five medals, including just one gold.
Bekele, who was making his comeback in South Korea following an 18-month injury lay-off, dropped out of the 10,000m.
Hermens added: "The federation treat individual athletes as team members and that's not working.
"They have to go on central training. They were panicking after the bad results of Daegu so now they want all the athletes to come and train with the national team, but that doesn't work.
"It's good for forthcoming new athletes, but for people like (double Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba) Dibaba or Kenenisa or (long distance great) Haile Gebrselassie, they have their individual programmes so you cannot just put them in a general programme from the federation."
Bekele bounced back from his Daegu disappointment by running the fastest 10,000m of 2011 in Brussels last September.
He declared himself fully recovered from injury ahead of the Bupa Great Edinburgh Cross Country earlier this month, but finished well down the field.
