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Alert: Soldiers on guard on Monday at the fourth UN High Level Panel on Post-2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Nusa Dua, Bali. The meeting is set to discuss developing a new global development scheme after the MDGs’ deadline passes in 2015. Antara/Nyoman Budhiana

A world forum of civil society organizations is urging President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to push for greater state responsibility to ensure people’s welfare, especially in developing countries.

Discussions on a global post- Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) still “lean to a market-based development approach, which means the expansion of the market that minimizes the responsibility of the state,” Sugeng Bahagijo of the international NGO the Indonesian Development Forum (INFID), said on Monday in Nusa Dua, Bali.

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