A sedate campaign


Impressive entrance: Prabowo parading on horseback as he inspects a roll call of supporters attending a campaign gathering ahead of the legislative elections in Jakarta.

THE search for MH370 has turned politics, our great national obsession, into a side-show. Indeed, no one is too concerned with either the Kajang or Balingian by-elections.

But Malaysians aren’t the only Southeast Asians who are increasingly turned off by politics. Down south, in Indonesia, with legislative elections in full-swing, the mood is desultory at best.

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Opinion , Karim Raslan

   

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