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Indonesia Tries to Clean up Elections

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May 18, 2018
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With 2019 elections looming next April 19, Indonesia’s General Election Commission (KPU) is seeking to bar prospective local lawmakers who have been convicted of corruption, a move regarded with little enthusiasm from the country’s political parties, whose members passed a law in February in the House of Representatives that not only immunized them from…

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