Infrastructure and Crucial Food Issue

KOMPAS/RADITYA HELABUMI

Pictures of presidential candidate number 01 Joko Widodo and presidential candidate number 02 Prabowo Subianto were prepared on Friday (15/2/2019) at the location of the second debate for the 2019 general election at the Sultan Hotel in Jakarta. The second debate, which will be held by the General Elections Commission (KPU), will take place on Sunday (17/2/2019) with the issues of focus being energy and food, natural resources and the environment and infrastructure.

JAKARTA, KOMPAS – Problems related to food and infrastructure are two issues considered very important to be resolved by the elected president. Therefore, in the second debate of the presidential candidates on Sunday (Feb. 17, 2019), Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto are expected to be able to explain their offer of solutions in the two sectors clearly and measurably.

The results of a Kompas survey on Feb. 13-14 2019, involving 620 respondents in 17 major cities in Indonesia, showed 51.8 percent of respondents considered food as the most important issue to be resolved by the elected president and vice president, followed respectively by infrastructure issues (15.3 percent), natural resources (12.1 percent), environment (10.5 percent) and energy (5.5 percent).