News Source: The Hindu
| about 1 month ago
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Tuesday began his second five-year term as Indonesia’s first directly elected President. Tight security marked the inauguration at the People’s Consultative Assembly in Jakarta. Terrorists had struck in the Indonesian...
News Source: Financial Times
| about 1 month ago
Both foreign investors and reform activists had hoped that the leader of south-east Asia’s largest economy would keep his promise to use his overwhelming election victory in July to choose ministers who would tackle the lingering challenges of...
News Source: Aantara.co.id
| about 1 month ago
Indonesian Stock Exchange (BEI) here, late Tuesday morning, closed lower, on profit taking moves. The Indonesian stocks went down 7.17 points or 0.28 percent to the level of 2.513,76. The BEI index rebounded after rallying over the past few days,...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| about 1 month ago
Indonesia's President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, yesterday pledged "prosperity, democracy and justice" for the world's largest Muslim nation as he was sworn in for a second five-year term. He said his country had ''1 million friends and zero enemies''...
News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| about 1 month ago
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono took his oath of office for the second time at the National Assembly Hall in Jakarta on Tuesday. The 60-year-old former army general is Indonesia's first democratically elected president to return to office...The...
News Source: Reuters
| about 1 month ago
Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, a former Indonesian energy minister, is in line to head a new presidential unit which would aim to speed up reform of the civil service and accelerate big infrastructure projects, sources told Reuters. "He will be like a...