Ganjar Pranowo, a presidential candidate from a coalition led by the ruling party PDIP, still cannot believe that he ended up at the bottom with such a small amount of votes based on quick count from seven pollsters. Ganjar, who is also former governor of Central Java for two periods, considered it as an anomaly because the quick count from the same pollsters also pointed to PDIP’s victory in the legislative election.

The party at Prabowo-Gibran camp started Wednesday (Feb 14) afternoon with Prabowo’s long speech. This morning, data from the General Election Commission (KPU) pointed to 55.97% votes for Prabowo-Gibran from 39.33% votes counted nationwide. This is a landslide victory because Prabowo win in almost all provinces, bigger than Jokowi’s victories in 2014 and 2019, among others thanks to huge support from Jokowi and his supporters who believe that Prabowo’s victory is like a ‘third term for Jokowi’.

Apart from the dynamics between political parties, it’s truly worth monitoring the relationship dynamics between President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Prabowo Subianto, who based on quick count from all polling agencies wins 2024 race and will become his successor. The dynamics between these two key figures will affect the remaining eight months of Jokowi’s administration and the next administration under Prabowo.

Quick count from all polling agencies, including Litbang Kompas, the research division of Kompas (the largest newspaper in Indonesia), pointed to a landslide victory for Prabowo-Gibran in one round. Ganjar-Mahfud and Anies-Muhaimin, however, have not yet conceded, waiting for the real count from the General Election Commission (KPU). Moreover, Ganjar-Mahfud believes that there is a structured, massive, and systematic fraud in the election.

Long live nepotism! Nepotism is everywhere in the country. That’s how we recruited our doctors, taxman, policeman, military leaders, regents, governors, and now president and vice president. Now that Prabowo-Gibran is on the brink to win the president and vice president election, we can expect stronger nepotism going forward.

Quick count from various polling agencies pointed to no surprises in legislative election, whilst less than 10% samples have been counted. PDI-P maintains the lead, followed by Golkar, Gerindra, and PKB, four political parties currently have most seats in the House of Representatives (DPR). 

Sri Sultan Hamengkubowono X confirmed to the press on Monday (Feb. 12) that he was asked by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to facilitate a meeting with the fifth President Megawati Soekarnoputri, the matriarch of the ruling party PDIP. Why Jokowi, who never formally announced his departure from the party, needs a broker to meet Megawati? Will the meeting happen? Will Jokowi and Megawati restore their relationship?

Connie Rahakundini Bakrie, a defense and military observer, is in the spotlight after her video went viral on the internet, in which she talked about her meeting with Rosan Roeslani, the campaign manager of Prabowo-Gibran. Connie claims that Rosan told her about a scenario of Prabowo’s presidency. Rosan, however, denied Connie’s claim. Connie fought back and rebuffed Rosan’s statement. Let’s talk a bit about this claiming game.

Watchdoc, an independent documentary channel founded by Dandhy Dwi Laksono, released a documentary video titled ‘Dirty Vote’ on Sunday (Feb. 11), the first day of the silence period or only three days before the election day. The campaign team (TKN) of Prabowo-Gibran, considers this video as a slander and an effort to deligitimate the 2024 elections, but Ganjar-Mahfud’s team sees this as part of political educations.