What it Costs to Run

Dwi Ria Latifa said she felt nervous when her party leaders asked her to run in the 2014 parliamentary election. The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) politician was thinking of the huge expenses she would have to cover. A close friend mentioned the figure of Rp6 billion. "I almost passed out," she said.

Ria was offered a Jakarta electorate. But she refused it, opting instead to contest in the Riau Islands. To the party elite, it was

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