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Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The office and situation is still the same for former Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani. But for today, it is President Susilo Yudhoyono himself who was scheduled to receive her, as the Managing Director of the World Bank.

Sri Mulyani who has been working at the World Bank since 2010 was in Indonesia to attend the Asean Finance Ministers' Investor Seminar. "Welcome home...," was the words journalist hear from President Yudhoyono to Sri Mulyani.

She was also scheduled to be the main speaker in the Asean Finance Ministers' Investor Seminar at Shangrila hotel, Jakarta, Tuesday morning.

This would be the second meeting with the President after Sri Mulyani quit her job as finance minister. The first meeting was on April 2011, in Bali when she attended the ASEAN Finance Ministers meeting, in which the President and Mulyani discussed the effects of the global economic situation at that time.

On Monday (7 Nov), Sri Mulyani also came over visiting her old office at the Ministry of Finance and had a discussion with the Finance Minister Agus Martowardoyo. They discussed the financial crisis in the euro-zone and the United States.

Besides receiving Sri Mulyani, on Tuesday President Yudhoyono is also scheduled to lead a ceremonial title of National Hero and the Signs of Honor at the State Palace at 11 am local time. And at 12 pm the President would receive Saudi Arabia`s Minister of Labor as a special envoy of the King of Saudi Arabia Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud.

At 13.30 the President and the First Lady, Ani Yudhoyono would fly to Bali to review the location of the 19 ASEAN Summit which will take place on November 17-19 November 2011.

In Bali, the President will meet Minister/State Secretary Sudi Silalahi to discuss the preparations of the upcoming ASEAN Summit followed by a series of ASEAN +3 Summit and East Asia Summit.Several of ASEAN partners` heads of state including U.S. President; Barack Obama, scheduled to attend the summit.
(SDP-09)

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