AMIEN Rais took a deep breath. This presidential candidate who also ran four years ago shifted his body, leaning to one side. He moved his hands from his knees to the armrests on the chair. The eyes of this man, who had Siswono Yudohusodo as his running mate, momentary shifted to the ceiling of his house in Taman Gandaria, Jakarta.

This professor of political science at Gadjah Mada University then spoke about the costs of running in a presidenti