Jakarta – A survey by Indo Barometer says that the people want President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to embrace all political parties in the next cabinet. The survey was conducted of 1,200 respondents in the country's 33 provinces.

"40.1 percent of our respondents said that they agreed with the idea of accommodating all political parties in the next cabinet," Indo Barometer Executive Director M. Qodari told a press conference at the House of Representatives in Senayan, South Jakarta, on Thursday.

"This shows that the people still prefer political policies that put everyone to gather up together and they do not keen on the idea of having opposition."

Political experts have been demanding Yudhoyono ignore his political rivals, the Indonesia Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the Golkar Party, for the next cabinet in order to ensure the checks-and-balances mechanism at the House.

The experts also say Yudhoyono must prioritize professionals rather than political parties' executives for the next cabinet.

Yudhoyono's Democratic Party Secretary General Marzuki Alie said he believed Yudhoyono would make the right decision about the next cabinet. "Political parties, whether elite or not, are not the issue. What matters is their competence for the ministerial post." (hdt)