AS the 2019 presidential and legislative elections draw near, Election Monitoring Agency (Bawaslu) Chair Abhan is snowed under with the work that often keeps him in his office well into dawn. Since the announcement of Joko Widodo-Ma’ruf Amin and Prabowo Subianto-Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno as presidential and vice-presidential candidates, Abhan, 50, hardly arrives home before 11pm.

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