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Civil servant hopefuls quizzed on SBY's songs

JAKARTA LIFE'S STYLE

Aspiring civil servants in Indonesia have been quizzed about the music career of the country's president during their selection exam.

Since 2007 president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has released three albums, which mostly feature love ballads and religious songs.

About 3,000 candidates who were applying for vacancies at the trade ministry found that the general knowledge section of the test featured a question about the president's most recent collection of pop songs.

"I got a headache choosing the answer," one applicant, Anita, told the Okezone news website, describing the question as the hardest in the whole exam.

While she knew Mr Yudhoyono had released several albums, she says it was not part of her exam preparation.

But the trade ministry has defended the question, saying it was only a small part of the exam.

Trade ministry spokesman Robert James Bintaryo denied there was any hidden political agenda in the question.

"What is wrong if a general knowledge question is about SBY's song?" he said, using the president's nickname.

"It's part of the general knowledge questions. There were 30 to 40 questions in that section and the song title was only one question," he was quoted by the Jakarta Globe newspaper as saying.

The 61-year-old former general released his third romantic pop album I'm Certain I'll Get There earlier this year, following up from his 2007 debut My Longing for You and 2009's Evolution.

The liberal president won a second five-year term in July 2009 on a platform of bringing economic growth, political reform and good governance.

- ABC/AFP

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