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SBY claims first 100-day programs successful
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono claimed on Wednesday his administration had managed to achieve over 90 percent of the targets he set for his first 100 days in office
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resident Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono claimed on Wednesday his administration had managed to achieve over 90 percent of the targets he set for his first 100 days in office.
The President elaborated his successes as he closed a two-day working meeting with Cabinet ministers and the country’s 33 governors in the Cipanas State Palace, West Java.
“Our assessment and monitoring show that over 90 percent of the targets of priority programs and action plans for the first 100 day have been achieved,” Yudhoyono said.
He explained that the achievements included what he called “quick wins” -- newly launched and old programs completed in the first 100 days of his second term.
Yudhoyono also claimed he had overcome barriers hampering development programs and created policies and regulations serving as guidelines for national development for the 2010-2014 period.
“Quick wins”, include the “revitalization” of a micro credit scheme for small and medium enterprises.
Government will begin disbursing Rp 20 trillion in SME loans annually.
“Then there are land certification programs, the provision of clean water facilities for 1,440 villages and the disbursement of operational funds for [over 1,000] community health centers across the country,” Yudhoyono said.
Others successes included internet connections for over 1,000 schools, a newly-launched 24-hour tax service at four main seaports (Belawan, Tanjung Priok, Tanjung Perak and Makassar) and shortened bureaucratic procedures for business licenses and issuing passports, he said.
He also claimed the government had managed to end rotational blackouts in some areas last year due to power shortages, as well as controlling annual flooding by means of the East Flood Canal in Jakarta, and government had complete road projects connecting towns in Java.
“Then, we’ve issued a number of government regulations and presidential decrees,” Yudhoyono said.
Among the regulations issued, the President explained, were those on construction services, forests management, unproductive lands, spatial planning, governors’ authority and functions, management of education, water transportation, and marine and forestry protection.
“It’s not true that we’ve failed to accomplish anything as critics say; we’ve managed to produce concrete results, which will serve as a strong starting point for our work in the next five years,” the President said.
In the two-day working meeting, senior government officials made plans on a wide range of different issues, including spatial planning and land management, food security, energy, infrastructure, bureaucratic reform, democracy, security and law enforcement.
“The results of this meeting and the evaluation of the government’s first 100-day programs will be soon put into a presidential instruction, which has to be followed-up by government officials at the central and regional levels,” Yudhoyono said.
“Three months from now we will again meet to evaluate the implementation of the presidential instruction... I hope governors will convey the results of this meeting to regents and mayors so as to ensure that the developments in their areas will be in line with those in yours and at the central level.”
