By Tommy Ardiansyah and Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian presidential candidate Anies Baswedan’s young fans are obtaining components from their preferred songs category K-pop to increase his appeal, exchanging photocards and light sticks enhanced with his face prior to theFeb 14 survey.
Anies is up versus frontrunner Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto and ex lover-Central Java guv Ganjar Pranowo in contending for the assistance of the 205 million Indonesians signed up to elect.
With federal government information revealing that majority of these citizens are millennials and Gen Z – individuals birthed in between 1981 and 2012 – all 3 prospects have actually increase their social networks existence, and particularly TikTok, to get to as numerous young citizens as feasible.
Anies, nevertheless, has actually taken it one action even more by copying K-pop vocalists and carrying out live-streams from his auto, a strategy his fans state …