Jakarta,     - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at his office on Thursday chaired a cabinet plenary session to evaluate  progress in the implementation of the government's first 100-days programs.

     "We have two more weeks to complete the first 100-days programs so we have to make an evaluation of the progress made up to this week," President Yudhoyono said in his opening remarks at the meeting.

     The head of state explained that the evaluation of the government's first 100-days program was necessary to know to what extent the targets had been achieved.

    "It is important for us to understand the first 100-days programs, and I hope the people at large will also understand that  it is a starting point for programs for the next five years," he  said.

    He added that the evaluation was made to know to what extent the first 100-days programs had been accomplished.

    "Let us evaluate how much  of the programs we have carried out, how much we have not yet achieved, and why," the president said.

    In the cabinet plenary session attended by all its members, the president also gave the floor to  the head of the Presidential Unit for the Management of Reform Programs (UKP3R),  Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, to report on  government targets that  had been achieved in its first 100 days.

    "I would like to invite the  UKP3R chairman to report  what has and what has not been  achieved  so that we know what we still have to accomplish in the next two weeks," the president said.

    At the end of January 2010  President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his cabinet will have been in office for  exactly 100 days.

    The head of state said the first 100-days programs were the basis for the government's development programs until 2014.

-Antara, 15 January 2010-