This book contains a collection of my speeches delivered for international audience. They cover wide-ranging topics, from terrorism to poverty, tsunami to corruption, democracy to education, globalization to insfrastucture, security to investment.
What I hope to achieve through these speeches is to define Indonesia’s new thinking and project new spirit that emerged after the 2004 elections. A key challenge for my Government in our first year has been to translate the tremendous expectations, energy and optimism into real policy measures that will promote growth and stability. In the process of doing this, the inter-connection between our national objectives and international activities becomes stronger. I am a firm believer that to attain our domestic priorities, we need greater--no lesser--engagement with the outside world.
Every generation needs to find its voice. My only hope is that ideas and massages expressed in these speeches and statement will add to the voice of the present generation. (SBY, text refer to back cover)