Siliwangi Military Command III in Bandung, West Java, is still
working on security measures planned for a possible visit by President
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono although the State Palace has not as yet
confirmed the visit.
“We’re still coordinating with the district
military command posts and [police]. There has been no confirmation yet
on whether or not the President is coming,” Siliwangi Military Command
III spokesman Col. Benny Effendi told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.
Benny
had earlier said the presidential visit to the Air Force's Special
Commando Academy in Lembang and a local dairy farm had been entered on
the agenda, although it had yet to be determined whether Yudhoyono and
his family would actually make the visit.
West Java Police chief Insp. Gen. Putut Eko Bayuseno said on Wednesday that the President was not going to Bandung.
“There
will be no visit by the President to Bandung. The first lady is sick.
Let’s just pray for her recovery so she can return to the President’s
side again,” he said at his office in Bandung.
Presidential spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha also said the President had no plans to visit Bandung this week.
But
he declined to comment on whether the President had canceled the
planned visit due to the hospitalization of his wife, Ani Yudhoyono, at
the Gatot Subroto Army Hospital in Central Jakarta since Tuesday for an
undisclosed ailment.
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