1st Man: Prices keep going up...

2nd Man: Prices shall go down

1st Man: What, just like that? Prices will go down?

2nd Man: I said so in a speech didn't I?

President Yudhoyono's leadership style has come to be characterised by a penchant for giving speeches and issuing presidential instructions on everything from fighting graft to violence against religious minorities, which are rarely acted on or simply ignored and forgotten.