August 30, 2014

Political soap opera

Kid: The next episode in the presidential election dispute soap opera right Dad?

Following weeks of political drama after Prabowo Subianto refused to concede defeat in the July 9 presidential election and his failed attempt to contest the result in the Constitutional Court (culminating in his supporters trying to breach a police blockade with Unimog trucks), another squabble between the political elite has erupted over legal impunity for lawmakers and leadership of the parliament (the MD3 law) and the election of the next Jakarta deputy-governor.

Kompas - August 30, 2014