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The Intelligence from The Economist

The Intelligence: Indonesia’s election, more TikTok than tick-box

The Intelligence from The Economist

The Economist

Global News, Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Campaigning for a coming election in the world’s fourth-most-populous country has been almost entirely policy-free: a good social-media presence is nearly all candidates need. As the Panama Canal dries out, neighbouring countries spy an opportunity—but how much of that trade can they expect to siphon off (09:11)? And, the wild boar hybrids causing havoc on Canada’s prairies (15:56). 


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1:01.0

It's getting more and more dry in the Panama Canal, which means less and less stuff is getting through it.

1:07.0

We find that neighboring countries are considering how to take on some of that lucrative load. And their extra bulk was supposed to enrich farmers,

1:18.0

but now Canada's crossbred super pigs

1:22.0

are running amok and causing chaos for the very farmers

1:25.1

that they were supposed to help. First up though, though, A series of viral campaign videos on Tik-Tok are winning over the hearts and minds of young voters ahead of

1:54.8

Indonesia's national election in two weeks.

1:57.8

Sue Lynn Wong is our Southeast Asia correspondent.

2:00.8

That, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that. correspondent. who has very successfully rebranded himself with young people simply by dancing but not very well.

2:20.0

So there are all kinds of viral videos of him, especially on Tik-Tok, you know, showing

2:26.2

him raising his arms, shaking his hips.

2:29.7

I recently saw one of him stripping off his shirt and waving it around his head as if he were like an

2:36.1

18 year old football player and throwing it into the crowd.

2:39.6

To raucous applause. So as a result young people across Indonesia, the world's third largest

2:50.7

democracy have flooded social media declaring that Proboo is cute and like a

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