Durian. The General Elections Commission, KPU, hosted the first presidential candidates’ debate on Jan.17.
The debate was one out of total five sessions prior to April 17 election.
The first debate was focusing on three issues; law and human rights, corruption and terrorism.
During a 90-minutes debate that was broadcasted nation-wide, both pairs of candidates, namely candidate 01 for Joko Widodo or Jokowi- Ma’ruf Amin and candidate 02 for Prabowo Subianto-Sandiaga Uno, presented their visions that were related to those issues.
The Big Durian captured the two pairs’ main statements below:
Vision
Both pairs of candidates are relatively similar to one another, except for a few concepts.
Jokowi admitted the “burden of past human rights abuses” and said that the pending resolution has been due to lack of evidence and the length of time that has passed since the incidents took place.
“However, we are still committed to resolve this human rights issue, which will be supported by a fair legal system and a good law enforcement,” Jokowi said.
