Politics and Law Eliminating Social Division, Facing Industry 4.0
After an exhausting political year, the Indonesian nation is to undertake another major task on entering 2020: eliminate social division, which is already worrisome.
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President Joko Widodo (right) greets Prabowo Subianto, his rival in the 2019 and 2014 elections, on 13 July 2019 at the Lebak Bulus MRT station in South Jakarta.
After an exhausting political year, the Indonesian nation is to undertake another major task on entering 2020: eliminate social division, which is already worrisome. This is needed so that the image of the “imagined community” named Indonesia is safeguarded amid rapid change.
Following the 2019 general elections, the two presidential rivals in the 2014 and 2019 elections, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Prabowo Subianto, have joined hands and begun working in the same government. The polarization between their supporters, which was widespread in the digital sphere as well as the offline arena, has now receded slightly.