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Debate skills needed to lead Jakarta: Experts
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Your number’s up: The candidates in the 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial election (left to right) Sandiaga Uno-Anies Baswedan, Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama-Djarot Saiful Hidayat and Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono-Sylviana Murni show their ballot numbers at JIEXPO Kemayoran in Central Jakarta on Tuesday. (JP/Seto Wardhana)
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ogically delivering and defending arguments are necessary skills that gubernatorial hopefuls must acquire to lead Jakarta, experts have suggested.
Hamdi Muluk, a political analyst from the University of Indonesia (UI), expects the upcoming debate, which will be organized by the Jakarta General Elections Commission (KPU Jakarta) next Friday, to become a kind of battleground stage where each candidate will try to show to the public how they will use their logic and critical thinking to defend the programs they are promoting.
“We need leaders who can debate because once they are elected, they will have to defend their programs in front of the City Council,” he said during a discussion on the election on Saturday.
He said the candidates’ passion and fluency in delivering ideas and arguments during the debate could reflect how polished and experienced they were in dealing with problems.
Hikmahanto Juwana, an expert in law from UI, said that despite the fact that there were three candidate pairs competing in the election, the debate organizers should allocate a certain portion of time for each candidate to face off head-to-head with other candidates to enhance the audience’s judgment in comparing the candidates’ quality and competence.
The KPU Jakarta has scheduled three debates for the election, with the first one slated for Jan. 13. The debate will be broadcast live on three television stations, namely TV One, NET TV and Jawa Pos TV. (evi)
