Listening to our minds, not our minders

When the polling booths in my neighborhood opened at 7 in the morning that historic Monday, July 5, only five people came to vote in Indonesias first-ever, direct presidential election. So the officials tasked with administering the voting, waited a while before allowing the early-comers to cast our ballots. It was, after all, the morning after the final of the Euro 2004 and vote