Oligarchy

Is our country also controlled by an oligarchy? If the answer is yes, who are they? The more expensive the election costs and the cost to be elected, the greater the dependence on people with money.

I have never told the story below to the public, namely my one-on-one meeting with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo in early August 2021.

The meeting was at the invitation of the President after I made sharp criticisms, both on Twitter and in other media. It lasted for almost an hour and a half in his office at the Bogor Palace, West Java.