Asian Social Politics - BOGOR - INDONESIAN President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday said he had been subjected to 'character assassination' over leaked US cables that accused him of abuse of power.
Released by whistleblower WikiLeaks and run in Australian newspapers The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald on Friday, the secret documents implied that the US embassy in Jakarta had serious doubts about Yudhoyono's integrity.
'I don't want to be too reactive and emotional,' Mr Yudhoyono told reporters on the sidelines of an international judicial conference in the West Java town of Bogor.
'I will use my rights to get justice in a democratic manner. Later on, we'll surely know who is democratic and who isn't,' he said.
'Also, who impetuously reported and accused and played judge in the mass media, in a diplomacy that has highly discredited the good name of a person, or what can be called character assassination,' he added.
Mr Yudhoyono, a former army general, was elected in 2004 and re-elected in 2009 on the promise he would combat corruption. Indonesia has protested to Washington over the leak. -- AFP
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