Rant of upcoming election – 9th April

We are 10 days away from the election day. If I’m not mistaken, it’s the first time ever that we (Indonesian) get to choose the parliaments members ourselves instead of choosing the political party and let them do the job in picking who to sit in the parliament.

It is a good thing but on another side it doesn’t seem to be a very good/efficient idea especially since we have 44 political parties! As if that is not enough, one political party can have more than 10 candidates and according to research, there is around 481 candidates in total. Whoa! I don’t understand why can’t one political party just nominate 1 or 2 person? Why do we need to have such a competition in one political party? My small little brain doesn’t have the room to digest this.

Mock up of the election paper

Anyway, the huge number of candidates contributes alot to the length of election paper which almost reach 1 meter, in details : 54 cm x 84 cm. *roll eyes* That’s more than half of my height already. I think we will break the world record for having the longest election paper ever. Or is there any country with longer election paper?

Eh wait.. That’s not the end of our misery yet, cause everyone will be given 4 papers instead of 1, since we will have to vote for 4 different kind of parliaments (whatever the name is). I don’t think 5 minutes is enough for one person to go in the cubicle, unfold the 4 papers, look for the particular party, tick the particular nominee and fold the papers back. Even filling the registration form to be a member of chick flick book club books is not that complicated.

I already felt confuse when I saw the mock up (above picture). I get even confuse when I step out of the house, cause the caleg’s (read: the legislative candidate) faces are everywhere; on billboard, on trees, on the electricity pole, on somebody’s house door, on pedicabs, literally everywhere! My brother’s teacher in school even throws out this joke, that every five years the trees will have a guard, something like that cause they stick the candidates’ posters on the tree.

End of the rant. I don’t want to go into the rant about the candidates or the silly campaign’s posters.