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2018, December 04 - 10 --- Tempo

The 2019 presidential election campaign, which has gone on for three months now, has shewn forth a disturbing phenomenon: that of a slanging match. The two camps are hurling insults at each other practically on a daily level. Such a campaign strategy is disadvantageous, does not highlight who has the better program, and in the end will only damage the meaning of democracy.

The Prabowo Subianto-Sandiaga Uno camp's disgruntlement on all manner of issues, including state debt and the public's declining buying power, is more often than not bandied about with much hyperbole. Sandiaga once pointed out the existence of tempe soybean cakes as thin as an ATM card to describe rising prices of basic goods. The tempe matter then became fodder for a polemic that went on for days after the Joko Widodo-Ma'ruf Amin camp gave quick reaction to counter the perception. The slanging match escalated when incumbent Joko Widodo slipped into making use of relatively untoward vocabulary. Jokowi made a snide remark about a sontoloyo (imbecile) politician when responding to criticism of budget allocation policy for village neighborhood administrations.

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