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        "msgid": "sby-video-conference-raise-eyebrows-1447893297",
        "date": "2005-09-14 00:00:00",
        "title": "SBY video conference raise eyebrows",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "SBY video conference raise eyebrows Rendi A. Witular The Jakarta Post\/Jakarta President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's decision to lead Cabinet meetings while on an overseas trip has begun to spark speculation as to whether he has lost trust in his aides at home. Susilo, who is on a trip to the United States, held his second Cabinet meeting by video conference in as many days on Tuesday. \"I do not know whether this is proof of President Susilo's concern about the country's situation.",
        "content": "<p>SBY video conference raise eyebrows<\/p>\n<p>Rendi A. Witular<br>\nThe Jakarta Post\/Jakarta<\/p>\n<p>President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's decision to lead Cabinet <br>\nmeetings while on an overseas trip has begun to spark speculation <br>\nas to whether he has lost trust in his aides at home.<\/p>\n<p>Susilo, who is on a trip to the United States, held his second <br>\nCabinet meeting by video conference in as many days on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\"I do not know whether this is proof of President Susilo's <br>\nconcern about the country's situation. But the function of a vice <br>\npresident is to ensure that the country's administration runs <br>\nsmoothly while the president is away, isn't it?\" said Emir Moeis, <br>\nthe chairman of the House of Representatives' budget committee.<\/p>\n<p>\"The daily teleconference could be seen as Susilo's lack of <br>\ntrust in (Jusuf) Kalla. The President wants to make sure that <br>\nnothing fishy goes on while he is away. But I do not see it as a <br>\nbig problem thus far,\" said Emir of the Indonesian Democratic <br>\nParty of Struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike in the first video conference-led Cabinet meeting on <br>\nMonday, Vice President Jusuf Kalla was absent from Tuesday's <br>\nmeeting.<\/p>\n<p>Susilo plans to hold a Cabinet meeting every morning during <br>\nhis six-day stay in the U.S. in order to directly oversee the <br>\nadministration. Susilo did not take part in Cabinet meetings <br>\nduring his previous overseas trips.<\/p>\n<p>The President has left a country facing its toughest economic <br>\nchallenges since the crisis in 1997. His government plans to <br>\nraise fuel prices for a second time this year in the coming <br>\nmonths.<\/p>\n<p>Susilo is also expected to appraise his ministers' performance <br>\nnext month, amid increasing demands that the economics ministers <br>\nbe replaced.<\/p>\n<p>State Secretary Yusril Ihza Mahendra said Susilo wanted to <br>\ndirectly oversee his ministers to resolve the various problems <br>\nconfronting the country.<\/p>\n<p>\"Although President Susilo has given the authority to Vice <br>\nPresident Kalla to manage the country while he is away, the Vice <br>\nPresident is still not in a position to make any decisions,\" said <br>\nYusril.<\/p>",
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