“WHO will you vote for?” I asked the Grab driver, pointing at the billboards of Indonesian presidential candidates along the macet (congested) highway from Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta Inter-national Airport to the Indo-nesian capital.
“Prabowo. Kesian dia, dua kali gagal. Kalau tiada Jokowi, dia sudah presiden sembilan tahun lalu. (Probowo. Pity him, he failed twice. If there was no Jokowi, he would have been president nine years ago),” the driver said.
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