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...because the costs of doing business in Indonesia were simply too high. Freshly unemployed and with poor prospects, Riza expressed his frustration at the ballot box on Sept. 20. In Indonesia's first-ever direct presidential election, Riza rejected incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri and voted instead for challenger Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. "I hope that there will be change under this government, especially in the creation of jobs," Riza says. "I can rely...
...days before the election that propelled him into the presidency of the world's fourth-most-populous nation, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono traveled to the campus of the Bogor Agricultural University for a very serious meeting. Leaving a group of aides waiting outside, the 55-year-old former four-star general strode into one of the institute's classrooms, a laptop tucked under one arm, to face six university professors. For the next three hours, he parried questions about his recently completed Ph.D. thesis: Agrarian and Rural Development as a Strategy to Eradicate Poverty and Unemployment. "We thought it was just...
...asking all of you, not just those who are present in the mosque, but everyone to unite together after we have been competing for eight months ... to build a better Indonesia." SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO, newly-elected President of Indonesia, speaking to a gathering in a mosque near his home in Jakarta after his landslide win last week...
...SENTENCED. BAMBANG HARYMURTI, 47, editor-in-chief of the Indonesian daily Tempo; to one year in prison for libel; in Jakarta. The court ruled that the Harvard-educated editor was guilty of "spreading wrongful information" about real estate tycoon Tomy Winata in a March 2003 story. Activists have decried the sentence as a blow to press freedom, criticizing the use of Indonesia's criminal code to prosecute a libel case. "The judges had a golden opportunity to write a new chapter in Indonesian history, but they did not take it," said Harymurti, who remains free pending appeal...
...final tally in Indonesia's presidential election isn't in yet, but with more than 70% of the 125 million votes counted, the partial results are already defying expectations. Front runner Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, whom pollsters had expected to take up to 45% of the votes, is now predicted to win only a third of them. Former army chief Wiranto, whose Golkar party dominated April's parliamentary elections, is now in third place, with just 22%. And in the biggest surprise, President Megawati Sukarnoputri has more than doubled her projected share to take 26% of the votes. The final results...