The Indonesian President said the election should be a battle of ideas, not a battle of feelings. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Local media were also rife with reports on the purportedly worsening relations between Mr Joko Widodo and his party, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle .
Sinetrons are popular Indonesian soap operas with endless episodes of over-the-top acting, jarring background music and tragic scenes. Mr Gibran, the 36-year-old mayor of Solo, registered his candidacy on Oct 25. He became eligible to run in the election after a Constitutional Court ruling that lowered the minimum age for presidential and vice-presidential candidates from 40 years to 35 as long as they had been elected leaders.
PDI-P Secretary-General Hasto Kristiyanto has expressed his disappointment that the president’s elder son Gibran, a PDI-P party member, decided to run for vice-president on the ticket of the opposing Onward Indonesia Coalition parties.