Despite of the incumbent President Megawati's silence over her failure for re-election bid, Indonesian president-elect Susilo Bambang Yudhono has been working hard for forming a president-led effective administration recently.

To operate the administrative machine more effectively, Susilo and his work team accepted the new concept on Monday that would require the president and vice president to share the same building.

According to the daily Jakarta Post here Tuesday, in the past 59 years since the country's independence in 1945, the president and vice president have had separate offices located about two kilometers away. The traditional separation was said to be necessary due to the reason that both president or vice president had his or her own duties.

To run the bureaucratic machine "more effective and dynamic, there will be greater integration," the well-known political expert Andi Mallarangeng said after a close-door meeting with the president-elect Susilo and his team at Susilo's home in Bogor, some 30 kilometers south of Jakarta.

The presidential palace will supply data not only to the president, but also to the vice president and the state secretary as well, Mallarangeng explained.

On the same day, Susilo also had a consultative meeting with vice president-elect Jusuf Kalla and Yusril Ihza Mahendra, who is the justice and human rights minister in the Megawati cabinet and the political alliance during the election with Susilo as well as Widodo, a former Indonesian Military Force (TNI) commander. Susilohad a separate meeting with the current Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Purnomo Yusgiantoro over the fluctuating oil prices in the world market and its impact to this country.

Susilo has been considering for possible revision over the 2005state budget mainly because of the oil price projection changes.

As the October 20 approaching for the new cabinet swear-in, start from tomorrow (Wednesday), Susilo will focus on selecting his ministerial candidates. Earlier, he claimed that he had already had at least three candidates for each ministry. To make the government more effective, Susilo plans to recruit more professionals, maybe up to 60 percent of the total.

Moreover, Kalla said today's meeting also focused on three priority programs the new government would undertake in the first 100 days starting from October 20.

In the wake of the extensive consultations between the major figures on Monday, Kalla said that the new government would be expanded a little bit as compared with the current one as it wouldconsist of 34 ministers, including two new ministers. Of them, thestate minister of sports and youth would be revived while the current minister of trade and industry would be split into two, then they can focus on their respective work. The latter has been merged into one only in 1998.

To push the decision making more effective and quicker, Susilo intends to set up two US-styled advisory bodies, which he leads, the Nation Economic Council and the National Security Council. Theadvisory councils would help the president on major political, security and economic issues.

However, many analysts doubted of his efforts to improve the administrative effectiveness, because the legislative body, House of Representatives (DPR) has been under control of the strong opposition allied by the Golkar Party and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P). The largest parties formed aloose alliance with the Prosperous and Peace Party (PDS), the Reform Star Party (PBR) and the Concern for the Nation Functional Party (PKPB) at all levels of the legislature across the country. Besides, these parties also controlled many provincial and district administrations. The political confrontation would bring negative affect for the smooth running of the new central government apparently.