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Comments: No easy fight for Jokowi camp
May 21, p1The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the winner of the April legislative election, could lose the chance of returning to power should it fail to anticipate the aggressive moves of its ally-turned-rival, the Gerindra Party
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ay 21, p1
The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the winner of the April legislative election, could lose the chance of returning to power should it fail to anticipate the aggressive moves of its ally-turned-rival, the Gerindra Party.
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Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo-Jusuf Kalla and team needs to start an all-out offensive. It's not an easy task due to the fact that the other side has more money and is dominating the airwaves (they own most of the TV stations).
If you split the Golkar Party and the United Development Party (PPP) constituents, then the odds would be in reverse, 49.14 percent (Jokowi-Kalla) and 39.76 percent (Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa) and this is not even including swing voters from the Democratic Party.
Also, one needs to take into consideration the 30 percent of new voters who are under 30 years old, which means they have no clue about Prabowo's track record or the alleged human right abuses in the past. Jokowi needs to capitalize on this.
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