Earlier today, KPU (Indonesian Electoral Commission) has declared Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (popularly known as SBY) as the winner of the 20 Sept direct presidential poll. He won a landslide majority of 60.62% defeating the incumbent President Megawati. He is expected to be installed as Indonesia’s 6th President on Oct 20. Despite the announcement, he has yet to give the acceptance speech. Apparently, he hold off such announcement until Megawati congratulated him and give a concession speech. He was meant to hold a press conference earlier tonight, however, it was cancelled last minute, as Megawati hasnt delivered her concession speech yet. He instead, sent his son, Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono, to the airport returning to his study in Perth.
I did some little research and found out that his son is studying business in Curtin Business School of Curtin University… So all of you in Curtin, make sure you locate this man and bring them unto your fold in ISC!!!! Hahahaha… he would be great asset!! Im sure there would be bodyguards protecting him and stuff!!
SBY is well known as the ‘thinking general’. His tough stands on terrorism was shown during the One Year Anniversary of the Bali’s attack, when he gave his speech representing Indonesians (Megawati has ’snubbed’ the event). His speech was widely applauded by the Australian media and public as better than that of Howard. He delivered the speech in English. This is a small part of the speech that inspires me:
“Many of the terrorists have been cuffed, put behind bars, put on trials, and sentenced by our courts. Some are still on the run. But make no mistake, we will hunt them, we will find them, we will bring them to justice. These diabolical men and their brand of evil, simply have no place in our society. They belong to our darkest dungeon, locked away deep beneath our children’s playground. History will condemn them forever.”
So yes, Megawati has lost. I guess its now time for me to show support for the new President. Hopefully he can bring about change and carries on the promise that he has been campaigning for.
Thank you Megawati for your 3-year service to our country as the fifth president of Indonesia!!