THE race to the 2024 presidency has been heating up since the end of last year. The National Democrat (NasDem) Party’s nomination of Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has caused cracks in Surya Paloh’s relationship with President Joko Widodo. In the 2014 and 2019 elections, NasDem was the first to declare its support for Jokowi, and now Surya Paloh has launched the same maneuver by swiftly announcing its backing for non-partisan candida