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Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is the president of Indonesia, he used to be an Indonesian Army general officer, his vice president is Boediono. He was born in 9 September 1949. He was born in Tremas, a village in Arjosari, Pacitan Regency, East Java. His political party is Democratic party. He has a wife named Kristiani Herawati and they have 2 children named Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono and Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono. His parents are Raden Soekotjo and Siti Habibah. When he was in fifth grade, Yudhoyono visited the Indonesian Armed Forces Academy (AKABRI). After seeing the soldiers training there and perhaps inspired by his own father's career, he became determined to join the army and become a soldier. He had originally wanted to get into the AKABRI after graduating from high school in 1968; however, he missed out because he did not register in time. He became the students at Tenth of November Institute of Technologies before he entered the Vocational Education Development Center in Malang, East Java. Then, he officially entered AKABRI in 1970 after passing the test in Bandung. He spent three years at Indonesian Armed Forces Academy (AKABRI) and became the Commander of the Cadet Corps Division there. He graduated from AKABRI in 1973, and as the best graduate of the year, received the prestigious Adhi Makayasa medal from President Suharto
.He won the 2004 Indonesian presidental election defeating incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri. Widely known in Indonesia by his initials "SBY", he was sworn into office on 20 October 2004, together with Jusuf Kalla as Vice Precident, and again on 20 October 2009, together with Boediono as Vice President. He ran for re-election in 2009 with Boediono as his running mate, and won with an outright majority of the votes in the first round of balloting.
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