SBY'S VISION AND MISSION NOT A PROMISE BUT PROVEN

Padang, W Sumatra, June 22 (ANTARA) - Presidential hopeful Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has said his vision and mission were not a promise but which had been proved during his presidency in the 2004-2009 term.

In an outdoor campaign at H Agus Salim sport stadium here on Monday, Yudhoyono said his vision and mission if he is re-elected will be continued and even stepped up in the next five years.

"The vision and mission to improve people's welfare was not a promise or just a discourse, but which had been carried out with concrete results," Yudhoyono said.

He said the five programs in his vision and mission for the next five years is to improve economic development for people's welfare, to build a clean and good government to give better service to the people, to build a good democracy and politics for all people, to continue law enforcement including corruption eradication, and to implement an equitable, fair, and balanced development for all the people.

Yudhoyono said the main point of the five programs was to improve people's welfare in the next five years as the objective of national development.

And to improve the people's welfare, he said that what has been achieved so far would also be stepped up.

Meanwhile, Yudhoyono's success team in Jakarta said it believed the electability of its candidate remained around 70 percent.

One of its members, Ruhut Sitompul, said in Jakarta on Monday in response to reports that SBY's electability had dropped even below that of Megawati, his rival.

Ruhut said until now his camp still referred to the result of the survey of the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) as basis for determining political measures ahead of the presidential election on July 8.

"We still believe in the results of the LSI survey that SBY's electability reached 70 percent because the institute has proven the result of its survey in the recent legislative elections closely matched with the actual result," he said.

Ruhut however said his camp respected the result of the survey that SBY's electability had dropped and treated it as a criticism to make improvements.

According to the Indonesia Development Monitoring the electability of the Megawati Soekarnoputri-Prabowo ticket reached 44.3 percent, above that of the SBY-Boediono pair which was recorded at 30.43 percent, while that of the Jusuf Kalla-Wiranto pair reached only 13.2 percent.