Elderly set criteria for president

BANDUNG: Residents at Bumi Pertiwi Old Folks' Home in Bandung decided on Thursday their criteria for the ideal president in the upcoming presidential election.

The president has to be honest, responsible, trusted, free from corruption and close to the common people, including to the elderly people, said Rochimah, 77, who has lived in the old folks' home for years.

She recalled that so far, the only president to visit the home was Soekarno, the first Indonesian president and also the father of President Megawati Soekarnoputri. -- Antara