Puan Maharani’s visit to a home for lepers in Surakarta, Central Java, during the campaign for the 2009 legislative election was initially scheduled to last just 5-10 minutes. According to Bambang Wuryanto, Chair of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) Campaign Team, this was because Puan was nervous about visiting the facility.

Bambang reassured Puan that leprosy is only contagious through body fluids. Former President Sukar