REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, NUSA DUA - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) is optimistic that Indonesia will reach the targets of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

"We will reach all targets in 2015," SBY said during joint press conference with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and UK Secretary of State for International Development Justine Greening on Wednesday in Bali.

While two years left before the dealine in 2015, Indonesian government will strive to reach the targets, in which one of them is to decrease maternal mortality. Last year before Rio+20 Conference, SBY predicted that more than a half country in the world could not reach all targets of MDGs by 2015, including to decrease poverty absolutely, conducting basic education, empowering women, decreasing child mortality, preventing communicable disease, managing better environment and engaging international relations to reach MDGs.

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