JAKARTA: A 90s rock star behind President Joko Widodo’s successful campaigns left Indonesia’s biggest telecommunications firm to back a presidential candidate ahead of next month’s elections.
Abdi Negara Nurdin (pic), rock band Slank’s guitarist, resigned as independent commissioner of state-owned PT Telkom Indonesia to join his band in performing at rallies and crafting a song titled "Metal Salute” for presidential hopeful Ganjar Pranowo. Slank did the same for Jokowi’s - as the incumbent is popularly known - campaigns in the 2014 and 2019 elections.
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