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SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO: A RETIRED GENERAL TURNED POLITICIAN
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Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the newly elected president, was born into a modest family in Pacitan, a small town in East Java in 1949. His father was a low-ranking army officer and his mother, the daughter of a founder of the Tremas Pesantren (Islamic boarding school). However, Yudhoyono was not sent to the pesantren; his 12 years education in his hometown was in a state school. This secular education and the traditional Javanese cultural environment influenced his later development. From his ea...
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