General Confirmed as Winner of Presidency
From Times Wire Reports
Retired Gen. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was declared Indonesia’s next president in a landslide victory and will be inaugurated Oct. 20. Yudhoyono won 60.62% of the vote compared with incumbent Megawati Sukarnoputri’s 39.38% in the Sept. 20 election, official results showed.
Yudhoyono, 55, gave no specifics on his plans to govern the world’s largest Muslim nation.
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