ABYADI Siregar, a Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) candidate in Medan, North Sumatra, was making a zealous speech. At the time in mid-December, before about a hundred residents in his constituency, Abyadi explained his policies should he be elected a member of the city council. Ten of his peers, fellow DPRD aspirants from the National Mandate Party (PAN), nodded in agreement. “I’ve indeed invited them but they are not speaking,” he