High Hopes for Corruption Eradication
General Election Commission (KPU) Chairman Arief Budiman (center) together with the content director of the National Campaign Team of Joko Widodo-Ma\'ruf Amin, Fiki Satari (far left); the planning director of the National Campaign Team of Joko Widodo-Ma\'ruf Amin, Ario Bimo (second left); the deputy chairman of the National Winning Board of Prabowo Subianto-Sandiaga Uno, Priyo Budi Santoso (second right); and the witness director of the National Winning Board of Prabowo Subianto-Sandiaga Uno, Prasetyo Hadi (far right), issue a press statement after holding a meeting on the preparation of debates of the presidential and vice-presidential candidate pairs at the KPU building, Jakarta, on Dec. 28, 2018. The KPU together with the campaign teams of the presidential and vice-presidential candidate pairs agreed that the moderator who would guide the first debate of the 2019 presidential election would be Ira Koesno and Imam Priyono.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS — The public has great expectations for the two pairs of presidential and vice-presidential candidates facing off in the 2019 general election to resolve a number of large-scale corruption cases. Commitments to resolve these cases are expected to be made in the presidential election debates.
The first debate between the presidential and vice-presidential candidates participating in the 2019 general election will be held in Jakarta on Thursday (17/01/2019), and it will raise issues of law enforcement, corruption, human rights and terrorism.