By Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja , INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT

JAKARTA - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's credibility has taken yet another hit, this time over the failure of rice seeds that were supposed to yield multiple harvests.

He had joined farmers in central Java to celebrate the first harvest of the new hybrid seeds in April but they failed to produce a second harvest as expected earlier this month.

Some 93ha of crops yielded only empty husks, prompting hundreds of angry farmers to demand two billion rupiah (S$304,000) in compensation from PT Sarana Harapan Indopangan, which had provided the so-called Supertoy HL2 seeds.

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