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Mr. 10,000
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The campaigns for Indonesia's presidential election in April 2019, officially started ten days ago.
The two candidates (and their running mates and supporting campaign teams) paraded through central Jakarta and read a declaration out loud about wishing a peaceful campaign. They even released white pigeons. Beautiful gestures.
Some days later, a member of the Prabowo team, named Ratna Surampaet, who is well known as being a political activist, was attacked and beaten up by thugs.
Obviously the possible link to Jokowi supporters was quickly made. Even Prabowo himself alluded to this possibility when he heard from her she was attacked. So, a big scandal had started.
But but but. Now the truth comes out; it was a ‘little white lie’ since she didn’t want people to know she underwent plastic surgery to her face! (There was a non related plastic surgeon raising questions after he saw the pictures and they got her entering a clinic on CCTV.)
This really made some people become a laughing stock. Prabowo supporters even ask the police to charge her and to kick her of the team to make clear they are not ‘involved’.
The lady has quite a history btw, she’s from North Sumatra and has been active as writer, director, etc. The last time she was in the news, is when she got arrested with Ahmed Dhani and some others just before those huge (anti Ahok) demonstrations. The charge was they were planning a coup d’état but that never materialized in a lawsuit or so.
The two candidates (and their running mates and supporting campaign teams) paraded through central Jakarta and read a declaration out loud about wishing a peaceful campaign. They even released white pigeons. Beautiful gestures.
Some days later, a member of the Prabowo team, named Ratna Surampaet, who is well known as being a political activist, was attacked and beaten up by thugs.
Obviously the possible link to Jokowi supporters was quickly made. Even Prabowo himself alluded to this possibility when he heard from her she was attacked. So, a big scandal had started.
But but but. Now the truth comes out; it was a ‘little white lie’ since she didn’t want people to know she underwent plastic surgery to her face! (There was a non related plastic surgeon raising questions after he saw the pictures and they got her entering a clinic on CCTV.)
This really made some people become a laughing stock. Prabowo supporters even ask the police to charge her and to kick her of the team to make clear they are not ‘involved’.
The lady has quite a history btw, she’s from North Sumatra and has been active as writer, director, etc. The last time she was in the news, is when she got arrested with Ahmed Dhani and some others just before those huge (anti Ahok) demonstrations. The charge was they were planning a coup d’état but that never materialized in a lawsuit or so.