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President leaves for Malaysia, Singapore, meeting with Obama
The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Wed, 11/11/2009 2:09 PM | National
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono left Jakarta on Wednesday for a five-day
overseas tour that will take him to neighboring Malaysia, for bilateral talks,
and Singapore, to attend an APEC summit and meet his US counterpart President
Barack Obama, Antara state news agency has reported.
The President and his entourage departed from Halim
Perdanaksumua Airport
aboard the Garuda Indonesia presidential plane at 10:30 a.m., and were
scheduled to arrive at Kuala
Lumpur International
Airport at 1:40 p.m.
local time.
Presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal had said earlier the President was
scheduled to meet the Malaysian King, Yang Dipertuan Agong XIII, and attend a
state dinner hosted by Prime Minister Najib Razak on Wednesday.
On Thursday, Yudhoyono will meet Prime Minister Najib for bilateral discussions
and later head to Singapore, where he will attend the APEC Summit and a meeting between US President
Barack Obama and the leaders of Southeast Asian countries.
At the two summits, President Yudhoyono will give his views on several matters
of regional and global concern.
"At the APEC Summit, the President will present his point of view on
'balanced growth' and review the targets of the Bogor Declaration, a document
adopted at the 1996 APEC meeting in Bogor,
Indonesia,"
he said.
Yudhoyono is to have a meeting with US President Barack Obama on the forging of
a strategic bilateral partnership in several sectors, Dino said.
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Didi Karjadi (not verified), Bandung — Wed, 11/11/2009 - 3:40pm
I think a lot of people are going to be very upset to see their President has left for an overseas trip without first making a personal statement, at the very least, about the ongoing saga around the Police prosecution of the two KPK officers. I am sure he will have plenty of excuses, but the people of Indonesia must truly be having serious doubts about electing SBY for another 5 years. Does the President realise that Indonesia is in crisis, that people are demonstrating on the streets by the thousand, and a million and a quarter people are demonstrating online? It really does appear that SBY is either completely out of touch with the ordinary people of Indonesia, or is in as much fear about this case as many other elites. Of course it could just be that he lacks the backbone to deal with this decisively, and is in a real state of denial. I wonder what his ex Vice President would have done?