THERE are two parallel activities of recent days. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been busy observing the achievement of his assistants in the cabinet. Meanwhile the public has been busy with the SBY-JK one-year leadership report card.

Discussions on the topic have flourished in crowded street-side coffee houses and at cooled cafes in shopping centers, on public transport and in office lobbies. Several research bureaus and NGOs also refused