While choosing between two presidents was an easy task for him, choosing among dozens of legislative candidates running in his electorate remains a maze of choices. As a result, he turned to record-tracking platforms to declutter information on his favorites.

“I recently found out about [the platform] and it’s been really helpful. Before that, I’ve been getting my information from ambiguous sources, so [record-tracking websites] could be a way to clarify the confusion,” Mulya said.

Like Mulya, voters can expect extra pairs of eyes to help them choose their candidates in the upcoming general election. One of them is the official General Election Commission (KPU) website, which allows users to seek out anything from school certificates to criminal records of their preferred nominees.

Last year, the KPU revealed that 38 out of the 200,000 legislative nominees had been convicted of corruption, including 12 running for provincial councils and 26 others for city and regional council seats.

The commission previously issued a regulation to ban former convicts from participating in the elections, but that was soon annulled by a Supreme Court ruling that cited a 2017 law on elections that allows them to run as long as they declared their criminal record.

Nevertheless, KPU chairman Arief Budiman remains optimistic.

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