KH Idris Marzuki slowly pulled back the curtain from the voting booth on Wednesday last week. While dipping his fingertip in the ink, to show that a person had already voted, this elder of the boarding school located at the foot of Mount Klotok, looked at the scores of students waiting for him.

“Go ahead and vote for whoever you want. I voted for Pak JK,” said Mbah Idris, as KH Idris is better known. The students kept silent. They sat and di