How much change can Indonesia’s ‘festival of democracy’ bring?

More than 100 million fingers are expected to take a dip in purple ink across Indonesia, as voters turn out for the world’s largest single-day election. But the person who might have the most sway is someone who isn’t even on the ballot: Indonesia's current president, Joko Widodo. So how much change can Indonesians expect?

In this episode: 

Jessica Washington (@JesWashington), Al Jazeera Asia Correspondent in Jakarta 

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Chloe K. Li and Fahrinisa Campana with our host, Malika Bilal. Miranda Lin and Sarí el-Khalili fact-checked this episode.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Joe Plourde mixed this episode. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

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