Indonesia: Team Prabowo hits back at ‘cheap’ human rights allegations
Indonesian presidential candidates, Joko Widodo, third left, and Prabowo Subianto, second left, greet each other during a televised debate in Jakarta, Monday. Pic: AP.
Gerindra deputy goes on attack following televised reference to Prabowo’s human rights record
As the remaining presidential candidates enter the crucial final stages of the campaign season in Indonesia, an increasingly antagonistic and caustic brand of politicking is beginning to characterise relations between the two camps. With so-called “black campaigning” and increasingly personal putdowns being launched one way and the other, tensions are evidently running high as the presidential hopefuls go into the home straight.
