Although incumbent President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and challenger Prabowo Subianto engaged in heated arguments during the fourth official debate, critics said they failed to address the most pressing issues on security and defense. Government spending on defense became the focus of the debate on Saturday, as the theme of weaponry modernization was drawn out of three questions prepared by panelists. Jokowi and Prabowo went on to talk about border security and foreign threats, but there was no discussion of such current pressing issues as internal reform within the Indonesian Military (TNI), welfare of TNI personnel, the conflict in Papua or the controversial plan to allow military officials to take up civilian posts. The potential return of the military into civilian affairs is an issue the country has yet to settle. In response to the problem of overstaffing in the TN...
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April 02, 2019 at 10:46AM
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