Sleepless nights for Indonesia’s election ‘losers’ 0 SHARES Share it! More than 200,000 candidates in Muslim majority Indonesia’s biggest-ever election will miss their goal, leaving many with no job and often huge campaign debts. Among them is a psychiatric hospital in Makassar on Sulawesi island that did a pre-election renovation to make way for wounded election warriors. “Every time there’s an election, some candidates get hospitalized.”While politicians in other countries are also at risk of post-election anxiety, Indonesia’s system raises the odds. Akhmad Batara Parenta, 40, isn’t ready to concede defeat, even though his party appears to have fallen short of the minimum parliamentary threshold, meaning he’ll almost certainly have no political job come May.

Source: Manila Bulletin April 24, 2019 09:56 UTC