Electing the Party, Not the Candidate

Interest in going to the polls remains high. Voters are predicted will make their choice on the basis of parties rather than the candidates.

March 31, 2009

GOING to the polling booth on April 9 is not appealing to Muhammad Hasanudin, 26. The employee at a telecommunications company plans to continue being absent again, something he has done since he studied at the Surabaya Institute of Technology.

“I’m disappointed,” said the resident of Petojo, Jakarta, last week. He claimed it was difficult to trust the candidates because he did not know them, and had never conveyed his aspirations directl

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