Presidential election

HaileyinHongKong wrote:

I'm not trying to touch a nerve on the reporter issue, but I'd vote for saving children from harm over saving a reporter any day.

I agree with you

mas fred wrote:

Sadly, there are too few flak jackets to hand to all the kids, so the best we can manage is reporters telling the world what they see, hopefully getting the war stopped.

I'd agree with that completely if there was anything close to objective reporting around here.  I don't know about the news there, but here the days of telling the news without editorial comments are over.  CNN particularly takes a side in absolutely every single conflict.

Ubudian wrote:

"Then why do they change their minds every week in Syria?"

I don't know.  I haven't paid much attention to events in Syria once I broke the story that Ann Coulter of Fox News is actually Assad's sister:


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The blonde was born in New York. I suppose he could have been one of her lovers.

President-elect Joko Widodo extended a plea on Tuesday to the political parties under Prabowo Subiantos coalition to part ways with the defeated presidential candidate and join the government.

I open the opportunity for the political parties [in the Merah Putih coalition] to join Indonesias government, Joko said at his office in Central Jakarta.

The parties in the Merah Putih coalition include the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party, Golkar, the United Development Party (PPP), the National Mandate Party (PAN), the Democratic Party and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS).

I believe Joko is making the right move here as, if it works out,it'll remove the legitimacy for any potential revolution and bring the country together.

TEMPO.CO, Makassar - Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa team said that suspicions on the presence of ghost voters in the additional special voter lists (DPKTb) in South Sulawesi was one of the reasons for challenging the presidential election results to the Constitutional Court. Ahmad Baskam, coordinator of the Red and White Coalition in South Sulawesi, said that evidence suggested that 85,000 ghost voters had been submitted to the team of election result dispute (PHPU) on July 21, 2014.

This seems less likely.
The polling stations were at village level, where everyone knows everyone else.
The election officials had lists of residents, and the residents had to produce their KTP (ID card) before they were given a voting form.
To create ghost voters would require cooperation between all the officials, including the observers.
I visited ten station, seeing one man try to vote at the wrong one, but being turned away because his ID card wasn't valid for that station.
As I understand it, he'd moved house but hadn't updated his card, so he had to go to another station just down the road.
All the stations I visited were just as careful.
Big city polling stations may well have been less personal, but the lists and KTP must have been there, making it very hard to cheat,

While struggling to amend errors in documents supporting a challenge to presidential election results at the Constitutional Court, the campaign team for the Gerindra Partys presidential candidate, Prabowo Subianto, has claimed that it has found more evidence of election fraud in the July 9 poll....
...We are asking this case to include 210,000 polling stations that relate to 50 million voters, he (Andre Rosiade) told The Jakarta Post,....
.....After flaws were found in the lawsuit, the court gave the Prabowo side until Aug. 6, when the first hearing is to be held, for corrections to be made.
The team instead used the extra time to claim more cases of fraud, which might be considered unacceptable by the panel of judges.
The new cases have not as yet been reported to the court.

Ubudian wrote:

Did you see the attempt to ask a question that a Jakarta Post reporter made at a Prabowo news conference a week or maybe a bit more ago?   

Yes, he made himself look stupid, and aggressive.

This makes him look worse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mXLZ9SQRw4

HaileyinHongKong wrote:

Isn't anyone on Prabowo's side?  When they very briefly mentioned the election around here, everyone said he was going to win easily.  Surely someone must like him.

I have yet to meet an expat who likes him, mostly because he's bad news for expats.
I have met locals who prefer him, but they've all shut up and gone sheepish.

happyhour wrote:

Wow....thanks the info.

Where there a lot of them??

Not very many people, and most looked like SMA or collage kids.
I'm betting, but can't be sure, they got Rp50,000 each for turning up.

There were two demos, both about the same size, and both vastly outnumbered by armed police, not to mention the press.
Loads of camera crews and reporters around - I have video of a lot of them as well.

The upshot of the lot is, the speakers were ranting on about how foreigner capitalists are stealing Indonesian's money.
And there was I thinking they didn't like communists.
I'll try to dub that video tomorrow and get it posted, but you may see at least some of it on various TV channels, including Bloomberg.

Jakarta. The team of losing presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto says it will dispatch thousands of supporters in Jakarta to the Constitutional Court, which begins today the trial of a legal challenge against the official presidential election result that showed Joko Widodo as the winning candidate.

Volunteers, sympathizers and politicians from our coalition members will stage a moral movement. God willing, around 30,000 to 50,000 of them will be present at MK [the Constitutional Court], Andre Rosaide, a member of the campaign team of Prabowo and his vice presidential candidate Hatta Rajasa, said in Jakarta on Tuesday.

Another team member, M. Taufik, said the crowd would be there to guard the first hearing of the case.

That pillock wants an army to turn up.
One hopes his prayer isn't answered, I seriously don't see 30,000 people being that stupid.

However, even a few hundred thugs is an invitation for serious violence so I hope the police are well armed and suffer no injuries in the event of this idiocy getting out of hand.

Bidara sary wrote:

I felt disgraced to heard such stupid act !!! Why they don't just think positively rather than waste the money to gathers peoples to do nothing.... !!!!

Cash and power.
Any other questions?