Jakarta – Indonesians are confident that new President Abdurrahman Wahid and Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri can overcome the country's major problems, a poll published Tuesday revealed.

The poll, which canvassed 919 people in Jakarta and the surrounding area on October 22 and 23, was carried out for the Kompas daily.

It showed that the public regards restoration of the country's economy as the new government's top priority.

Close to 85% of those polled said that the two leaders would be able to quickly restore foreign confidence in the country, while 86% believe they will be able to prevent the disintegration of the nation.

Their ability to ensure law and order was endorsed by 83.1% of those polled.

Respectively 76% and 73.9% of the respondents believed the two were capable of protecting human rights and of overcoming the economic crisis.

But there were doubts on two fronts – corruption and curbing the military's role in politics.

Their ability to deal with the corruption cases against former president Suharto, and their earnestness in scrapping the military's political role scored 48.2% and 46.8% respectively among those surveyed.

The poll also showed that 60.5 of those polled believed that getting the battered economy back in shape was the main task facing the two leaders.

National disintegration, the eradication of corruption, the prevention of social unrest and restoring public faith in government rated much lower in priority. A total of 30.3% of those polled said the main advantage the two new leaders had was the trust of the people, with 10.9% believing they could work together while seven percent said they had the ability to unite the nation.