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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

Indonesia President Susilo: The Asian<br />

Era has Arrived<br />

<strong>PKU</strong> NEWS 2008--11—03<br />

http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=225691355<br />

<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Nov. 3, 2008: <strong>PKU</strong> was pleased to welcome a special guest,<br />

Indonesia President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to deliver a speech on October 31.<br />

―I am very honored to be here in the famous <strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, and happy to be here<br />

with the people <strong>of</strong> China who have just successfully hosted the Olympics so<br />

wonderfully. I would like to congratulate you all for your triumph now!‖ President<br />

Susilo‘s sincere and friendly voice immediately helped the audience feel closer to<br />

him.<br />

After briefly introducing Indonesia‘s geography, population and culture, President<br />

Susilo quickly moved on with his speech to a deeper and more realistic Indonesia.<br />

Politics and Economy<br />

According to President Susilo, just like China, Indonesia has made great changes in<br />

the past decades. We have completely emerged from the financial crisis <strong>of</strong> 1997,<br />

and have achieved great success in democratization. I have been honored to<br />

become the first elected President <strong>of</strong> Indonesia, and through hard work <strong>of</strong> both the<br />

government and our people, the people now also elect all <strong>of</strong> their <strong>of</strong>ficials. Susilo<br />

also pointed out that Indonesia is now working on breaking down corruption, and this<br />

movement so far is the most effective and the greatest in scale in the Indonesian<br />

history. In the mean time, in order to continue to democratize the governmental<br />

system, the Indonesian law has been revised to help prevent ethnic discrimination<br />

and achieve racial equality. Indonesia is slowly emerging on the global stage.<br />

When Susilo started to speak on both China and Indonesia‘s economic growth rate,<br />

he humorously used hand gestures to compare how Indonesia still had a good length<br />

to go before catching up with China. Despite that fact, under comparison to the rest<br />

<strong>of</strong> the world, Indonesia has done pretty good during this world wide economic low<br />

point. Other than that, the government is working on and has seen some initial<br />

results with decreasing poverty, unemployment rates and increasing social benefits.<br />

Promoting Regionalization and Global development<br />

Ever since China and Indonesia declared their strategy partnership in 2005, the<br />

issue <strong>of</strong> how to improve this relationship became their main concern. Regarding the<br />

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