NURUL Qomaril Arifin considers the competition among candidates in her electorate like the war in Syria. Candidates showered voters with money. "It was a sadistic, vulgar, and brutal war," the candidate for the Bekasi, Purwakarta, and Karawang electorate said last week. "My opponents were not from another party, but rather were my own party associates."

The Golkar Party Deputy Secretary General had to face off against popular figures in her party li