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Article: Profile: Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
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- July 8, 2009
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Profile: Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
JAKARTA, July 8 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian incumbent President Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono succeeded in renewing his term of office at the
Presidential election on Wednesday, according to the sample- based
quick count result.
Yudhoyono was born in 1949 in Pacitan, East Java, Indonesia, in a
lower-middle class family. He graduated from Indonesia Armed Forces
Academy in 1973 and became the chief of Sriwijaya Military Command
in 1996.
Yudhoyono was appointed as Mines and Energy Minister in the
cabinet of President Abdurrahman Wahid in 1999 and the Coordinating
Minister for Politic and Security Affairs in August 2000. In 2001,
he was dismissed ...