Please close the door behind you...

Woke up this morning and browsed local (OZ's) online news sites to find stories on yesterday's Presidential Election. There's nothing, zip, nada. No news is good news I guess, as these people normally put Indonesia in the news when there's plane crashed or <please insert all sort of possible disasters here>.

It's the time to be proud being Indonesian. We've passed the test again this time. I wouldn't worry so much who's going to win. At least the wheel has spinned. People need to get used to election as part of life. Even if we end up with "bad" president, well, tough luck. Try again in 5 year time.

Just look at the US of A. They already have established presidential election mechanism, and they ended up with someone as inspiring as Dubya, for 8 good years, try to beat that!

One thing, can we do away with the run-off election please? Last time I heard this is not Indonesian Idol, is it? We should simplify this and channel the energy (and money) for other things.

We can just do it this way:
-Based on the legislative election, candidates must have formal support the parties. Only two with total highest number of popular votes can run.
-Anybody can run (as the current system), but whoever wins, even by only one vote, takes all and becomes the president.

Oh, by the way, I hope this is the last time we see Megawati's face on the ballot paper. The fact that she's still relying on Sukarno's image is so 1998. Time to move on, thanks for what you have done, and please close the door behind you...