The world's largest Muslim country is about to elect its president. We look at what matters in Indonesia's vote.
In their last debate on Saturday, Jokowi projected optimism telling voters that a “big and good future” awaits them, while Prabowo said that the country is heading in the “wrong direction”, and that he can steer it back to the right path with promises of more industrialisation.
But with frustration rising over the president’s unfulfilled campaign promises, including on the issue of the economy and human rights, their inclination to vote this year are in question, she said. Uni pointed to one recent study that showed only 23.4 percent of the millennial respondents, polled in 12 major cities, say they are interested in politics.
Fadjroel Rachman, an independent presidential candidate in 2009 and adviser to Jokowi in 2014, agreed that the reaching out to millennial voters has been a challenge. “I cannot imagine what kind of action the opposition would do to overcome Jokowi’s lead,” he said, adding that even though the president missed his GDP growth target by two percentage points, he has managed to deliver on major infrastructure projects, including Jakarta’s metro railway.
Anisa Pratita Kirana Mantovani, research manager of the Center for Digital Society at the University of Gadja Mada in Yogjakarta, told TRT World that in this election season the amount of fake news has been unprecedented.
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