The drumbeat of the election campaign for Governor of Jakarta was already pounding away on Sunday two weeks ago. Soon after it was followed by the more regular sight of banners spreading across the city, dance artists and traffic jams—and of course a plethora of promises. Both candidates are convinced of victory. A member of the Fauzi Bowo-Prijanto campaign team, for example, was so sure of themselves that they claimed: “Even if we don’t ca