Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was less than impressed Friday when he found his name had been spelled incorrectly in a handwritten invitation from the National Mandate Party (PAN), presidential spokesman Andi Mallarangeng said.

The invitation in a plain plastic folder without an envelope or signature was delivered to the presidential office by PAN chairman Sutrisno Bachir. From the party's senior advisor and former People's Consultative Assembly chairman Amien Rais, it invited Yudhoyono to PAN's commemoration of National Awakening Day on Saturday.

Andi said the President upon receiving the letter commented on the absence of a proper envelope and signature and wondered why his name had been spelled wrongly.

Replying to the invitation, Andi quoted a Javanese saying that closely translates to "be like this, or this, but don't be like that", before adding the President would not attend the event because he was already going to a ceremony in Bandung.

National Awakening Day marks the founding of the country's first nationalist organization on May 20, 1908.