PRESIDENT EVALUATES PROGRESS IN FIRST 100-DAYS PROGRAMS

Jakarta, Jan 14 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at his office on Thursday chaired a cabinet plenary session to evaluate progress in the implementation of the government's first 100-days programs.

"We have two more weeks to complete the first 100-days programs so we have to make an evaluation of the progress made up to this week," President Yudhoyono said in his opening remarks at the meeting.

The head of state explained that the evaluation of the government's first 100-days program was necessary to know to what extent the targets had been achieved.

"It is important for us to understand the first 100-days programs, and I hope the people at large will also understand that it is a starting point for programs for the next five years," he said.

He added that the evaluation was made to know to what extent the first 100-days programs had been accomplished.

"Let us evaluate how much of the programs we have carried out, how much we have not yet achieved, and why," the president said.

In the cabinet plenary session attended by all its members, the president also gave the floor to the head of the Presidential Unit for the Management of Reform Programs (UKP3R), Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, to report on government targets that had been achieved in its first 100 days.

"I would like to invite the UKP3R chairman to report what has and what has not been achieved so that we know what we still have to accomplish in the next two weeks," the president said.

At the end of January 2010 President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his cabinet will have been in office for exactly 100 days.

The head of state said the first 100-days programs were the basis for the government's development programs until 2014.