Your comments on the nomination of Bank Indonesia Governor Boediono as Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's vice presidential candidate for the July presidential race.

Boediono is an honest and humble technocrat. He is not a politician, which keeps him from getting embroiled in conflicts of interests in policy making.

Yogi Suwasono

Jakarta

Boediono is a good choice for SBY. The incumbent President should be lauded for choosing the economist, a credible and humble vice presidential hopeful to help him run this country. I hope the Indonesian people will look and scrutinize the backgrounds and credibility of all candidates who will run this nation for the next five years. If they do, they will be able to vote wisely and elect the best people to lead this country.

WSR

Surabaya

I think it's a very smart move from SBY. Boediono is a master for economics. Actually, I will throw away my vote for SBY if he chooses a partner from any political party.

Ade

Bandung

By appointing Boediono his running mate for next July's presidential election, SBY will continue to drive better income of lower groups by creating job opportunities and improving people's prosperity.

I hope they will take the right steps to deal with the impact of the global economic downturn to maintain positive economic growth. In addition, the SBY administration will continue to fight corruption and create clean and good governance.

Abdul Rahim

Tangerang, Banten

The main concern in the next five years is to address the economic crisis. Therefore, SBY made the right decision by choosing a great economist as his second-in-command.

SBY's government was successful in fighting state disintegration and corruption. Now his main duty is to overcome economic problems such as poverty, unemployment and so on. Boediono is also not a representative of any party, so his candidacy will not endanger the coalition.

Suwandi Prayitno

Jakarta

Boediono will mean a lot for SBY.

E. Nurdin

Jakarta

What Boediono will mean, time will tell. At least he is not one of those hard-line bigots, or one of the unsentenced mass murderers.

Hadi

Surabaya

Boediono will be a good partner for SBY in the July election. Both are pluralistic and have eyes and ears for the poor. They will provide political stability and pro-globalization vision. They can easily snatch proven pro-people provincial governors to complete their program for the next five years.

Moeljono Adikoesoemo

Jakarta

SBY-Boediono is the best choice as they are statesmanlike, transparent, well-prepared, experienced, knowledgeable and honest for good governance and have very good behavior as political leaders. Indonesia deserves non-corrupt leaders who fight against abuse of power, against corruption and nepotism.

It is a very rough and tough job for SBY and Boediono to change the mind-set of Indonesians. With the help of all Indonesian people, they will bring a new prosperous Indonesia into the next decade.

Jimmy Lim

Madrid

SBY Boediono as his running mate, if they are elected president and VP, will be a solid team in trying to eradicate corruption and developing and improving our economy. However, SBY as president/head of the government must act stronger and more decisive. He should also appoint a strong home affairs minister who is able to control and contain political unrest and separatism.

Soebagjo Soetadji

Jakarta

I think SBY made an excellent and wise choice in nominating Boediono as his VP. The world is in financial crisis and the most important priority now is to get the country out of this crisis with good economic decisions. What better than to have an ex-BI governor, who is supposedly a proven expert in financial and monetary policies, to assist SBY in steering the Indonesian economy to stability, growth and prosperity.

Andrew Yeo

Singapore

The appointment of Boediono is a great idea, especial in trying to address economic problems. He is an excellent candidate for the job.

Teguh Nugroho

Ungaran, Central Java

That was the right and smart choice by SBY to choose a technocrat. I hope the Indonesian economy will be better and become more stable soon.

Agung

Jakarta

I think SBY and Boediono are the best figures to run this country. Clean government is the most important objective. We've lost way too much money to the heartless corruptors.

Hendrik

Jakarta

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