Meddle Gauntlet

Send us a text 10 months to the day before next year's momentous election, Indonesia's electoral process is plodding through a veritable gauntlet of meddling. This includes spurious procedural disputes, unscrupulous legal attacks and a late-stage attempt to revise rules. And the once-independent Anti-Corruption Commission (KPK) is at issue: an editorial in Tempo, once a staunch KPK defender, asserts that the commission is now an instrument of abuse. Machinations seemingly ai...