THE hall on the ground floor of the Bina Graha Building in the Presidential Palace complex with its shining black granite flooring is filled with flat-screen monitors of various sizes. “Praise be to God, what we’ve long been looking forward to is ready,” said President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono when presiding over the cabinet meeting for the first time in the hall called the “situation room” on Monday a fortnight ago.

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