{"id":61842,"date":"2024-02-12T12:43:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T03:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/12\/indonesia-election-2024-k-pop-tiktok-and-cats-the-fight-to-win-the-key-youth-vote"},"modified":"2024-02-12T12:43:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T03:43:05","slug":"k-pop-tiktok-and-cats-the-fight-to-win-the-key-youth-vote-in-indonesias-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61842","title":{"rendered":"K-pop, TikTok and cats: the fight to win the key youth vote in Indonesia\u2019s election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People under 40 will decide who leads the world\u2019s third-largest democracy when voting takes place on 14 February<\/p>\n<p>For first-time voter 18-year-old Nafis Athallah, the election is everywhere. There are banners on the roads, pavements, and even outside homes, and his social media feed has been transformed into an election battleground, with campaign videos, fan art dedicated to candidates, and streams of opinions.<\/p>\n<p>His friends are divided over who to support, and have been debating the election, conscious of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/05\/2024-indonesia-general-election-everything-you-need-to-know\">huge role younger people will play<\/a> in the vote on 14 February. \u201cHalf of the active voters are young people. So it\u2019s a very, very big demographic,\u201d says Nafis, who is from Medan, North Sumatra.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/12\/indonesia-election-2024-k-pop-tiktok-and-cats-the-fight-to-win-the-key-youth-vote\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People under 40 will decide who leads the world\u2019s third-largest democracy when voting takes place on 14 FebruaryFor first-time voter 18-year-old Nafis Athallah, the election is everywhere. There are banners on the roads, pavements, and even outside hom&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,156,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61843,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61842\/revisions\/61843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}