The elections were held today and there were about 40% of Indonesians who did not bother to vote. Some people blame the Elections Committee saying that not enough was done to finalize the voter lists but nobody has yet blamed voter apathy.
With over thirty parties vying for seats in four separate elections (DPR, DPR Province, DPRD and DPD) held on the same day you would thing that there would be something for everybody but most of the smaller parties are only trying to get government funds for taking part in the election. The rest of the parties are the same old faces with the sae old promises few of which, if any, will be kept.
At the time of writing the Democrat Party is in the lead with around twenty percent of the vote. That means there are twice as many who don’t care about the election as there are who picked the most popular party. The political elite need to look at what they have done to create this srt of situation.
Of course with ballot sheets as big as newspaper broadsheets some of the voters may have decided it just wasn’t worth the struggle.