WHEN politics forgets the people, something that should be virtuous turns into cheap and nauseating transactions. These days, politics is no different from a cattle market.

The decision by National Democrat (NasDem) Party to pair its presidential candidate Anies Baswedan with National Awakening Party (PKB) General Chair Muhaimin Iskandar was born from this kind of transaction. NasDem was the first party to declare its presidential candidate by e