COMMENT

摘要

This year has been a tale of elections. Following the mammoth exercise in democracy that is the Indian general election, it was the turn of South Africa in May and Indonesia in July to go to polls. The results offered contrasting stories. In Indonesia, the reformist Joko Widodo (almost universally known as Jokowi) was declared winner of the presidential poll after two weeks of counting, becoming the first Indonesian president with no ties to the army or an establishment family.