Candidates Off To An Early Start
Campaigning for Jakartas top spot has not officially begun. But candidates running in the gubernatorial race have begun to flex their political muscles as they vie to secure voter groups.
May 23, 2012
At the second floor of an Utan Kayu building in East Jakarta, young men and women are glued to their computers. Ranging from their late teens to early twenties, most of them are still in school. Their chief preoccupation seems to be sharing video messages containing testimonials supporting one of the six tickets running in Jakartas gubernatorial elections scheduled to take place this coming July: Faisal Basri and Biem Benyamin.
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