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resident Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono claimed on Tuesday that he had done a good job in cochairing the United Nations-sanctioned High Level Panel (HLP) of Eminent Persons on the Post 2015 Development Agenda and that its final report had been well received.

Speaking before Cabinet members, regional leaders, foreign ambassadors and representatives of civil organizations at the State Palace on Tuesday, Yudhoyono said the UN general assembly had warmly welcomed the report.

'I had a positive impression when I submitted the report,' the President said. 'The report was the result of the panel's five meetings as well as its open and inclusive discussion with more than five thousands organizations from more than 120 countries.'

Copies of the report, entitled A New Global Partnership: Eradicating Poverty and Transforming Economies through Sustainable Development, were distributed to all attending the meeting at the palace.

Yudhoyono said that the report would provide frameworks for global partnerships after the Millennium Development Goals end in 2015.

Yudhoyono, along with British Prime Minister David Cameron and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, had been asked by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to co-chair the HLP which consisted of 27 experts from a number of countries around the world.

Yudhoyono chaired the panel's final briefings and submitted the final report to Ban in New York, US, on May 31. Cameron and Sirleaf did not attend the briefings or the submission of the report.

The panel's first meeting was in New York in September 2012, followed by meetings in London in November 2012, Monrovia in February 2013 and Bali in March 2013, before wrapping up in New York again in May this year.

Yudhoyono said that the panel managed to come up with five basic principles on the commitment to eradicating poverty.

'First, leave no one behind. The second is, put sustainable development at the core. Third, transform economies for jobs and inclusive growth. Number four is to build peace and effective, open and accountable institutions for all. Fifth, forge a new global partnership,' Yudhoyono said.

He then called on all parties to help campaign on the issue.

'It's in our interests, both at the national and the international levels, to help raise awareness of this report. The center point is on how to ask all parties to share responsibility in combating poverty and establishing sustainable development,' Yudhoyono said.

Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, the head of the Presidential Working Unit for the Supervision and Management of Development (UKP4) who also chaired the National Committee on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, said the panel had faced very tough challenges in writing the final report.

'Various views and opinions from panel members had to be mediated into the final report,' he said.

Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID) executive director Sugeng Bahagijo criticized the report saying it had two major gaps on the issues of inequality and rights of immigrants.

'If the gaps are left unaddressed, they will undermine efforts for transformative shifts both in Indonesia and the world,' he said in an article published in The Jakarta Post's Tuesday edition.

Regarding inequality, the report prefers not to set a global target on inequality but to leave it to national policy to decide, which, according to Sugeng, is a 'grand, missed opportunity' for leaders to stem the worldwide rising trend of inequality both in middle- and high-income countries, including Indonesia.

'The report also does not set a target or indicators to protect and promote the rights of migrant citizens, especially in host countries like Saudi Arabia and Malaysia,' Sugeng said.