Kingmaking in Indonesia
Presidential selection process is undemocratic, critics say
Indonesia’s 2003 law governing the selection of presidential candidates, which critics say freezes out anybody but establishment candidates, is under fire again as the jockeying begins in advance of the February 2024 primary election.
It is a system, critics charge, that forced President Joko Widodo, then a phenomenally popular Jakarta governor, into an …
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