Jakarta (ANTARA News) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) asked businessmen to be patient in facing the problems posed by the country`s bureaucracy which had yet to support the business world, saying it still needed to be reformed.

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia`s furniture exports in 2009 may fall 30 percent from last year`s US$2.65 billion because of global economic slowdown, the Indonesian Association of Furniture and Handicraft Industries (Asmindo) said.

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono outlined yesterday his domestic agenda for the next five years, predicting that if re-elected later this year Indonesia would record 7 per cent annual economic growth by 2014.