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Business 6 years ago
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Whoever wins, market will rally after elections: Analysts
The JCI grew by 44.56 percent in the year of 2004, when Indonesia held its first direct elections, and even jumped by 86.98 percent in 2009. In 2014, the index still managed to record an impressive 22.29 percent increase.
Opinion 6 years ago
How does simultaneous elections system influence Indonesian politics?
It is vitally important to understand what other potential effects holding the elections simultaneously has on the campaign and Indonesian politics more broadly. Altering the system for one purpose can bring about unintended consequences.
Opinion 6 years ago
Choose your representative: Don’t send just any cat to Senayan
Voting in Indonesia is not a case of going into an Italian ice-cream parlor with 64 flavors to choose from. Voting is more like, to use the Indonesian expression, “buying a cat in the gunny sack”. They choose their cats blindly, not knowing and not caring whether they get alley cats, fat cats, wild cats or smelly cats.
World 7 years ago
Female legislative candidates pledge support for migrant worker protection
Female legislative candidates from the Jakarta II electoral district, which covers Central Jakarta, South Jakarta and overseas voters, pledged support for the protection of female migrant workers abroad as the elections draw near.
