>>sager: we have seen peaceful elections and president yudhoyono re elected. what are the key challenges in the second term? >>baswedan: short term, is infrastructure, because that would guarantee the expansion of the economy. number twois decentralisation of the market, ensuring there are quite a few engines of growth across the country. three is education, ensuring that the young indonesians, many of them, are educated three is education, ensuring that the young indonesians, many of them, are educated properly, quality education, so that they can participate in the market. when we often, indonesians often see ourselves as a very rich nation because of the minerals, oil, gas, that is present here in our land, but i think that our mind set has to change, we must see people as our number one asset, not the natural resources. generally i think in the second term president yudhoyono will have a much stronger say in this process. >>abirached: last year dr baswedan was also named one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world by us magazine, foreign policy >>

gauge, he says, is indonesia's recent election, in which secular incumbent president susilo bambang yudhoyono won easily. islamist parties, which had surged to 40% of the vote in 2004, lost ground, to less than 30%. >> some people feared that if democracy, if the democratic space is opened it will allow islamist party to dominate the arena. that is not true. >> reporter: significantly, the reaction of the islamist and other parties after the election indicates a commitment to democracy, says anies baswedan, a scholar of political islam. >> we have around 40 parties. only nine were able to gain seats in the house, yet we don't see significant problems from supporters who are not having their parties in the house. acceptance to political result, democratic result, is very important. >> reporter: he says indonesians, especially the 14% who survive on less than a dollar a day, have much more pragmatic concerns: food prices, the economy in general, and corruption. even voters who'd like to impose stricter islamic law or sharia. >> from what i understand about islamic states, the people live in pro