Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia’s president, promised in his second term inauguration speech on Tuesday that his priorities in his final five years in office would be to stimulate the economy, strengthen democracy and uphold justice.

But the former general, who took the oath of office at a meeting of the country’s highest legislative body, the People’s Consultative Assembly, warned that progress could not be taken for granted in a world blighted by economic crisis, climate change and poverty.