Indonesia Vice Presidential debate with Ma'ruf Amin and Sandiaga Uno.

Indonesia’s Vice-Presidential Debate 2019: Fact-Checking

JAKARTA, Indonesia (ViaNews) – The third presidential debate was held on Sunday (March.17) at the Sultan Hotel. Unlike the first two, the third debate only involved vice presidential candidates; Ma’ruf Amin (running mate of the incumbent Joko Widodo) and Sandiaga Uno ( vice presidential candidate for Prabowo Subianto). Amin and Uno come from different backgrounds….

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A woman votes in Indonesia’s 2009 presidential election. Photo by: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Promise to Give Millennials Ministerial Seats

JAKARTA, Indonesia (ViaNews) – One of Indonesia’s vice presidential candidates, Sandiaga Uno, promised to give millennials ministerial posts if he becomes the winner on the upcoming presidential poll 2019. Uno, a prominent entrepreneur wants to give posts of Minister of Youth and Sports, Minister of Communication and Information, and Minister of Research and Technology to…

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Presidental election 2007 in Indonesia. Photo by: Maria Tschanz.

War of Words Ahead of the 2019 Indonesia’s Poll Makes Campaign Period Lose its Substance

JAKARTA, Indonesia (ViaNews) – Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo introduced a new term. “Genderuwo politician” is used to describe politicians who influence people by spreading the propaganda of fear and uncertainty. “Such politics is unethical; how can [the politicians] frighten their own people? This is called genderuwo politics, [because it] spreads fear,” the president said in…

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United States President, Barack Obama, casts his ballot in the 2012 U.S. election at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Chicago, Illinois. Photo by: Pete Souza.

Electronic Voting Machines Face Challenges in Many Parts of the World

The age of technological revolution is often being referred to as the “post-modern” era. This is an era where everything that is digitalized and technologically tagged is easily accepted and appreciated everywhere. This is the reason why the electronic voting or e-voting, including electronic voting machines (EVMs), was once expected to become the globally accepted…

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Junta Central Electoral in the Dominican Republic.

Will the Primary Election Type Change the Outcome of the 2020 Dominican General Election

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (ViaNews) – After President Medina´s approval of the Political Party Law, the country´s election board (Junta Central Electoral or JCE) granted parties a period of 75 days to communicate their decision over the primary elections type (open or closed) they wish to conduct in preparation for the upcoming 2020 elections. The…

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Protest against the AfD in the Bundestag. The sign reads "Stand up against racism". Photo by: Martin Heinlein.

New Left-Wing Politics in Germany

BERLIN (ViaNews) – After the phenomenal success of Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche-movement in France, follows the German “Aufstehen” movement – headed by politicians of the far-left seeking to change left-wing politics in Germany. “Aufstehen”, which translates to “rising up” seeks to unify the political left-of-center forces in Germany in a novel way to oppose the…

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Women from Rawalpindi queued to vote for Pakistan's elections. Photo by: Rachel Clayton/Department for International Development.

Pakistan Elections: Muslim Party Cast 8% Fewer Votes, Non-Muslim Voters Increase by 30%

ISLAMABAD, Pakistam (ViaNews) – The general election in Pakistan revealed a very interesting fact. According to Pakistan’s English-language news portal, Dawn.com, the number of voters pertaining to religious minorities in the country has climbed 30%. That’s an increase of almost one million non-muslim people, in a country where 96.57% of the population is Muslim. Previous…

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