Gen-Z Indonesians promote their candidate the K-pop way

TALE: One Indonesian governmental candidate is seeing success with a shocking fanbase– the nation’s die-hard Gen- Z K-pop followers, that state that Anies Baswedan‘s distinctive, hip design and social-media smart appears like their favored musicians.

With much less than a week up until electing day, K-pop followers transformed Anies advocates throughout the nation are holding occasions such as this one at a coffee shop in Jakarta, where they state verses of their favored hits while trading cups and souvenirs that include the candidate’s face.

They state they recongize parallels in the way he advertises himself.

“It all started from a TikTok live that Anies did one day. He went live after an event, and it happened to be inside a car. Most K-pop idols, after performing in music shows, like the K-pop show Music Bank, they do similar livestreams in that sort of format.”

“In K-pop society, when idolizers have their birthday celebrations or when their …