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15946
Fri, 08/15/2008 - 13:48
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PRESIDENT: INDONESIA BECOMING SAFER
Jakarta, Aug. 15 (ANTARA) - Indonesia's people, from the country's westernmost Sabang (Aceh Province) to easternmost Merauke (Papua Province), were beginning to feel that the country was becoming safer, according to President Susilo Bambnag Yudhoyono in his presidential State of the Nation Address on the Draft 2009 State Budget and Financial Notes before the House of Representatives (DPR)'s plenary session at the Parliament Building, here on Friday.
Security is a significant factor for the success of the "Visit Indonesia Year" aimed at boosting Indonesia's tourism industry, he stated.
In 2007, the tourism sector has contributed US$5.3 billion to the state revenues, he said.
The number of foreign tourists visiting Bali, as a barometer of the country's tourism, has recorded an increase, even higher than before the bombings in Bali last 2002, he said.
"This is precisely the reason why we have to intensify and preserve together the agenda to make Indonesia safe and peaceful," he said.
The significant progress in security field was in line with the presidential Regulation Number 7 of 2005 on the National Medium-Term Development Plan 2004-2009, which contained three main agendas.
The country's three main agendas are to create an orderly and peaceful Indonesia, as well as a just and democratic Indonesia, and to improve the people's well-being.
Indonesia, through hard work and synergistic efforts, has succeeded in maintaining social, political and defense stability, including in conflict-prone regions like Aceh, Papua, Poso and Moluccas, he said.
"The persuasive, proactive and impartial government policies have apparently convinced various quarters that force is actually not the best solution to settle a problem," the president said.
He stated that the country has also made an encouraging progress in thwarting and overcoming transnational crime and terrorism by arresting and prosecuting a number of perpetrators.
"Recently, the police have succeeded in discovering a cache of home-made explosives and bombs in Palembang," he said.
The president, however, reminded that the nation must continue to heighten vigilance as the country was still unsafe from terrorist threats and other crimes such as illegal logging, illegal fishing and illicit drug trafficking.
Indonesia would mete out the hardest possible sentence to drug traffickers as they have endangered the nation's younger generation, he said.
Security is a significant factor for the success of the "Visit Indonesia Year" aimed at boosting Indonesia's tourism industry, he stated.
In 2007, the tourism sector has contributed US$5.3 billion to the state revenues, he said.
The number of foreign tourists visiting Bali, as a barometer of the country's tourism, has recorded an increase, even higher than before the bombings in Bali last 2002, he said.
"This is precisely the reason why we have to intensify and preserve together the agenda to make Indonesia safe and peaceful," he said.
The significant progress in security field was in line with the presidential Regulation Number 7 of 2005 on the National Medium-Term Development Plan 2004-2009, which contained three main agendas.
The country's three main agendas are to create an orderly and peaceful Indonesia, as well as a just and democratic Indonesia, and to improve the people's well-being.
Indonesia, through hard work and synergistic efforts, has succeeded in maintaining social, political and defense stability, including in conflict-prone regions like Aceh, Papua, Poso and Moluccas, he said.
"The persuasive, proactive and impartial government policies have apparently convinced various quarters that force is actually not the best solution to settle a problem," the president said.
He stated that the country has also made an encouraging progress in thwarting and overcoming transnational crime and terrorism by arresting and prosecuting a number of perpetrators.
"Recently, the police have succeeded in discovering a cache of home-made explosives and bombs in Palembang," he said.
The president, however, reminded that the nation must continue to heighten vigilance as the country was still unsafe from terrorist threats and other crimes such as illegal logging, illegal fishing and illicit drug trafficking.
Indonesia would mete out the hardest possible sentence to drug traffickers as they have endangered the nation's younger generation, he said.
