Keterangan Pers Presiden

Ucapan Selamat Kepada Senator Barrack Obama

The US election results has now been announced with certainty and Senator McCain has also congratulated Senator Obama.

I extend our heartfelt congratulations to the people of America for their obvious enthusiasm in exercising their democratic rights. And I congratulate Senator Barack Obama for his successful election results.

This is a very historic elections for the United States in many ways, It is also of great importance to the world.

Indonesia hopes that President-elect Barack Obama will lead the US as a force for peace, for progress, for spreading good and for reforming the international system.

The world community is now bound together in the midst of enormous global challenges, food shortage, energy security, financial crisis, and climate change.

None of these great issues of our time can be solved without the US on-board, and certainly, none of these issues can be solved by the US alone.

We need to work together to deliver a new age of global cooperation.

Indonesians have a special affection for President-elect Barack Obama. He had spent his childhood in Indonesia for some 4 years, he knows our people and our culture.

I look forward to working even more closely with President-elect Barack Obama to strengthen our bilateral relations and to constructively address the global challenges of the 21st century.

Thank you.