CANDIDATES
The Other Political Aspirants
Surveys put them in last place, or even excluded them from their calculations. But these candidates feel optimistic about their popularity.
October 21, 2008
THERE are many ways to measure popularity. Surveys are one of the trends at the moment. But Sutiyoso does not believe that these results indicate the real measure of a candidate’s popularity. The Indonesian Prosperity Party presidential candidate is trying a different tack: going into the crowds to test whether he is known by people. When he alights from a plane he mixes with other passengers. Upon arriving at a small city he would drop by a ro
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