With one election result done and dusted culminating in the “Black Dude” in the White House, the next offering here in Jakarta will be about as interesting as life in a “Dutch Oven” !
The Indonesian elections are actually a ploy, the aim is not to get a president democratically elected, more of a marketing campaign to keep flagmakers in business and poster printers working at full tilt in an effort to have pictures of multiple prospective fuckwits being plastered over anything that does not move in Jakarta.
The Indonesian elections are actually a ploy, the aim is not to get a president democratically elected, more of a marketing campaign to keep flagmakers in business and poster printers working at full tilt in an effort to have pictures of multiple prospective fuckwits being plastered over anything that does not move in Jakarta.
As the Jakarta Post pointed out last November“ Voting for a president in Indonesia is an exercise of “buying a cat in the sack”, to borrow the popular Indonesian expression. We know they move and meow, but not much else about them. There remains the big risk of picking the wrong cat.
By contrast, the U.S. election is like a cat beauty contest, where the candidates are paraded before voters who scrutinize them right down to the smallest of details. The risk of picking the wrong cat is virtually eliminated.
Americans get the Cool Cat, while Indonesians will likely end up with the Smelly Cat. “
How it works here is that a party must win 20 percent of the seats or 25 percent of votes in the April parliamentary elections, in order to nominate a presidential candidate.
After the choice has been made, there is a three month campaign, which, realistically will probably throw up only three candidates. To be honest, the way the whole thing works sucks a bit as they do not get the “party nominations” to run as a candidate as is done in the USA. Rather, the party leaders fight it out among themselves behind close doors to decide who is going to stand. Biggest dog wins!
After the choice has been made, there is a three month campaign, which, realistically will probably throw up only three candidates. To be honest, the way the whole thing works sucks a bit as they do not get the “party nominations” to run as a candidate as is done in the USA. Rather, the party leaders fight it out among themselves behind close doors to decide who is going to stand. Biggest dog wins!
Who’s up for it so far….
Yudhoyono, (known as SBY) the incumbent president will be nominated by the Democratic Party…his only problem is to convince the other minnows (smaller political parties) to align themselves with him so that he could win the requisite number of seats to be allowed to stand. (Has also been known to adopt strange Foreign Policies with neighbours)
Megawati who was Prez before SBY, probably the best chance of being selected outright as her party the PDI-P is considered strongest to win enough votes in April. (Also been known to avoid foreplay once a year)
The last of the three major candidates would come from the Golkar party . Their chairman, (who is the current Indonesian Vice President) Jusuf Kalla, has stated that Golkar will not announce their candidate until after the April vote rigging is over. (Has also been guilty of pimping for Indonesia..http://viewsfromtheeast.blogspot.com/2006/09/indonesian-vice-president-is-pimp.html )
Meanwhile, flags, banners, posters and bullshit will continue to fill the streets and airwaves for the next six months…..
As the Jakarta Post said...Smelly cat, smelly cat, it’s not your fault.
Meanwhile, flags, banners, posters and bullshit will continue to fill the streets and airwaves for the next six months…..
As the Jakarta Post said...Smelly cat, smelly cat, it’s not your fault.
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