President signs mud management board legal umbrella.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has signed the legal umbrella of Sidoarjo Mud Management Board (BPLS), presidential spokesman Andi Malarangeng said at the presidential office here on Monday.

"The BPLS legal umbrella has been signed by President Yudhoyono and it will be announced soon," Andi said, adding that the two legal umbrellas were Presidential Regulation (Pepres) on the formation of organization and Presidential Decree (Kepres) onthe appointment of its members.

Asked when the Pepres and the Kepres were signed, the presidential spokesman said he forgot the date and the names of BPLS members.

He said he had yet to know who would be the chairman of BPLS.
Following the signing of the legal umbrella, Andi said BPLS could directly carry out its duties like the National Team for Sidoarjo Mud Management whose term of duty came to an end on April 8. (***)

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7 protesters arrested hours before Islamic leaders meeting opened.

BOGOR, Police arrested seven protesters in front of Bogor Palace in West Java hours before President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was scheduled to open a two-day international meeting of Islamic leaders in the city.

Some 50 students demonstrated in front of the place to protest the Indonesian support to the United Nations Security Council sanction against Iran.

The students were involved in minor clash with police officers when they tried to approach the Bogor Palace, the venue of the meeting attended by representatives of 11 countries.

The participants are Shiite and Sunni clerics from Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Malaysia, Lebanon, Pakistan, Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia. They are expected to find the best solution to on going violence in Iraq.

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