Ref: Soeharto juga sebelum turun tachta mengadakan kunjungan ke Afrika, karena keadaan mendesak kunjungannya diperpendek. Dalam perjalanan kembali ke Jakarta Soeharto bersama delegasi mampir ke Arab Saudia untuk minta restu, rupanya SBY juga ingin melakukan seperti yang dijalankan Soeharto sebelum turun datau diturunkan dari kurssi tachta kekuasaan.
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/yudhoyono-to-tour-three-african-nations-saudi-arabia/568146 Yudhoyono to Tour Three African Nations, Saudi Arabia Jakarta Globe | January 28, 2013 President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to tour three African countries and Saudi Arabia starting on Wednesday, where he will attend two international conferences, as well as reportedly discuss migrant worker issues and a slate of other bilateral matters. The president is scheduled to kick off his nine-day tour with a visit to Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, to attend a UN High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, which is a follow-up to two similar meetings in New York in September and London in November of last year. “The Indonesian president will attend the Monrovia [meeting] in his capacity as one of the co-chairs of the [panel] … to ensure that the Post-2015 Development Agenda deliberations run as expected,” Indonesian presidential spokesman Teuku Faizasyah said in a press statement on Monday. “Among targets wished to achieve is poverty eradication through sustainable growth with equity,” he added. Yudhoyono is also set to engage in a bilateral meeting with his Liberian counterpart, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, as they seek to boost bilateral ties between Indonesia and Liberia, particularly in terms of trade and investment. He will then depart to Abuja, Nigeria, to meet with his Nigerian counterpart Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to discuss bilateral issues, with a similar focus on trade and investment, as well as politics, security and socio-cultural matters. Yudhoyono will then head to Jeddah to attend a business forum set to feature both Indonesian and Saudi businesses. He will also perform a minor hajj with his wife, First Lady Ani Yudhoyono, while there. Faizasyah’s statement mentioned nothing about any discussions surrounding Indonesian migrant workers, but the Saudi Arabian daily Okaz reported on Sunday that Yudhoyono was expected to sign an agreement to end a freeze on the recruitment of Indonesian maids that has been in place since early 2011. That ban followed an Indonesian maid’s beheading after she was convicted of murdering her Saudi employer. Okaz reported that the two sides had reached a deal after tough negotiations over the past year about maids’ salaries and treatment, along with other conditions set by Indonesia. Saudi Arabia has reportedly agreed to pay Indonesian maids a monthly salary of between 1,200 and 1,500 Saudi riyals ($320 and $400). The report gave no further details of the agreement. Yudhoyono is scheduled to end his tour with a visit to Cairo to attend the 12th Summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), themed “The Muslim World: New Challenges and Expanding Opportunities.” He is expected to arrive back in Indonesia on Feb. 7. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
