PRESIDENT Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has two favorite golf courses. The first, the Royale Golf Club, is a 27-hole course in Pondok Gede, East Jakarta. The other is the 18-hole Emeralda Golf Club, in Cimanggis, West Java. These two places are where the President often spends his weekends.

He usually plays golf with friends from the same graduating class of the Indonesian Armed Forces Academy (Akabri). Chief Air Marshall Djoko Suyanto, Chief Air Mar