Populism & Election 2017

Dr. Wawan Sobari, lecturer in politics at Brawijaya University in Malang, discusses whether the result in the 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial election truly represents a shift in voter sentiment away from the old elites

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Were the voters the real winners in the 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial election? Why did Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah seem impotent in their response to some of the extremist rhetoric and actions of the election campaign? To what extent did a widening gap between rich and poor influence the election outcome? Dr Wawan Sobari addresses these and related issues.