The fact that there are presidential and vice presidential debates for Indonesia’s upcoming election is amazing. Each candidate is being made to show what they’re worth, what they stand for, and how far. The problem is there are still clear signs of restraint from many sides and I’m not talking just about the candidates.
The moderator of last night’s VP debate complained that he was being held by the rules of the debate from digging further into where each candidate stand. The whole thing was a joke. The debate did not happen at all, there was no VP debate, there was a Q&A session in which no counterpoint was made. Each candidate only had to answer the moderator’s question, nothing more. No effort was made to argue a point made by other candidates.
What’s funny was the aftermath. In the post Q&A session, both MetroTV and TV One held separate response sessions with representatives of each candidate. This was where the debate happened. Each rep defended to the death what their respective man was saying earlier. Nobody wanted to concede despite their candidates clearly diverting the questions on several occasions. It was more interesting watching the post-“debate” debate that the “debate” itself.
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