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There are two surprises of candidates to run in governor election of 2017. These two figures are ex minister of education anies baswedan and the son of ex president susilo bambang yudhono, agus yudhoyono. They came out at the last minutes after the official announcement of PDIP party which is decisive in pointing out the route toward the election of jakarta governor next year.
The most surprising is the decision of democrat party to endorse the son of democrat chairman agus yudhoyono. Agus who is currently a soldier seems to have his career at stake after being pointed out by his dad to be ahok's challenger.
Surprises without clear mission.
It is definitely surprise. Most people predict that yusril who has campaigned his run long before was not endorsed by PKB instead this party choose agus yudhoyono to run.
The other is ex minister of education anies baswedan. He is not even listed in the survey of candidates to run in election. But out of our expectation, gerindra and pks endorse him. All these surprises are meant to beat the incumbent.
What becomes interesting when it comes to election, all candidates speak too general about their mission. Take a look at sandiaga uno for instance, in mass media he always says to bring jakarta better, eradicate poverty, creating job opportunities and so on. Now how significance this words to the decision of voters.
Though it is not yet proved by any survey, current voters are too smart to assimilate and decide for the best candidate. They do not trust much on general words of candidates, they tend to be acknowledged as mere promises, on the other hand they tend to trust on specific programs. This was made by president jokowi in his campaign, he talked about specific things, programs not general broaden idea to bring indonesia returning to be the asia's tiger. This sounds illogical, thus the opponent was proven to lose and jokowi came out as the winner.
Up to day, no candidate talks about specific programs except Ahok, the incumbent who proves through his programs to diminish flood for instance. Ahok eradicated wild settlement, he wins the heart of jakarta people as being portrayed by satisfaction rate through surverys by credible institution.
Calculating the opportunity
The best rival of ahok is possibly only anies baswedan. This is because this ex education minister possesses the counterpart of ahok's trait that is much criticized by some. Some considers ahok is to bragging. But some considers it should be done to crackdown the corruption and unresolved problems of jakarta for years before ahok's tenure.
Based on this, ahok will come out of winner in 2017, however he has to calculate his rival anies whose whim tend to be his counterpart.
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