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Indonesia Leader Doubtful for ASEAN Summit in United States: Spokesman
September 16, 2010

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, center, gesturing as Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono look on at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Vietnam in April. A spokesman says Yudhoyono is unlikely to be able to attend next Thursday Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, center, gesturing as Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono look on at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Vietnam in April. A spokesman says Yudhoyono is unlikely to be able to attend next Thursday's ASEAN summit in New York called by United States President Barack Obama. (AFP Photo)
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peterR
7:18am Oct 6, 2010

With the latest cancellation of a planned trip to the Netherlands over some demonstration or the other, I think that it shows Indonesia's President to have lost it. He exists in a cocoon in this country and is able to pretty much avoid everything that he is not comfortable with, being treated like royalty by those around him; he simply cannot face not having that same environment whilst he is away. Unlike most modern leaders from democratic countries who are willing and able to put themselves personally in the firing line, for example by facing a critical questioning on television , SBY seems to think that he is above all that and should be untouchable and unapproachable. ‘My door is always open’, does not seem part of his personal leadership philosophy. I don’t know whether SBY is very gullible or whether he owes too much to too many, but his actions and reactions, decisions and choices, do-not seem any longer to be consistent with the good of Indonesia. Personally I find it very scary because there are no shortages of people who are happy to take advantage of weak leadership.

Roland
9:27pm Oct 5, 2010

Almost 2 weeks after...what was now actually all so urgent on President's SBY agenda which held him back to attend this meeting at that time?

What was the results anyhow? Have there been any new and important developments?

Roland
10:32am Sep 22, 2010

Now, VP Boediono left today for New York to attend the meeting (with a 26-member entourage - whoa!!!)- I am just curious what was so ultimately important on the President's agenda which hindered him to attend this meeting himself!

A busy man he is!

Valkyrie
12:00pm Sep 17, 2010

mauriceg: A gentleman and scholar, you are! Thank you.

BTW, I am fond of reading your submissions.

ps: I honestly was not too offended by it though, but my posting was primarily to have things in good order. Please don't feel tooooo bad about it and have a good day!

blakep
11:31am Sep 17, 2010

Priorities, priorities.

Don't you cynics know how far in advance one has to book to get some studio time in order to lay down the latest ditties.

Please show DJ Kerbau some respect!


Jakarta. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is unlikely to attend a summit of Southeast Asian leaders called by US President Barack Obama this month in New York, a spokesman said on Wednesday.

The failure of the leader of the region’s biggest economy and the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country to attend the summit will be a blow to Obama’s efforts to reach out to the strategically important region.

Officials blamed the short notice given for the summit, which was announced on Sept. 3, and Yudhoyono’s prior engagements.

“The US-ASEAN summit invitation was given in short notice. The president’s agenda at that time was fixed earlier this year,” spokesman Teuku Faizasyah said.
 
The White House has said Obama will hold talks with leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations in New York on September 24, at the time of the annual United Nations General Assembly.

The summit is Obama’s latest attempt to reinvigorate US policy towards the rapidly developing region, where US primacy is seen by some as waning in the face of China’s growing economic and military might.

Domestic affairs have forced Obama, who went to school in Indonesia as a child, to cancel two visits to Jakarta in the past 12 months.

The democratic, nominally secular archipelago is a key founding member of ASEAN, which includes members as diverse as regional financial hub Singapore, Buddhist Thailand, communist Vietnam and military-ruled Myanmar.


Agence France-Presse


Agence France-Presse