Name: Putri Wulan Dari

SRN : 1513042085
Intermediate Reading
Material Source: Opinion Section from The Jakarta Post
newspaper.
Title : Judging a book by its cover
1. What is the topic discussed?
Corruption and problem public/voters face in election.
2. What is the problem proposed?
The candidates in election

sometime

have

dark

background or did some crime like corruption in the past.

Public sometime got tricked by them because they have
some nice award that makes voters believe they are nice
people without knowing their true characteristic or what
crimes they had done.
3. What is the strategy to overcome the problem?
- Public have to think skeptical and critical in choosing their
-

leader in election.
Do not just trust what they said and find the true
information about the candidates from credible institution

like Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW).

The political parties have to put integrity on top of the list
of criteria of candidate.

4. What is the fact that he put forward?

- Banyuasin Regent Yan Anton Fardjian received an award
from the BKKBN for his contribution to governments birth
-

control efforts.
Banyuasin Regent Yan Anton Fardjian was known for his
care for people.

KPK data reveal that Yan is the 51 st head of second level

administrative region it has charged with corruption since

the inception of the antigraft body late in 2013.

Yan is the youngest among 185 politicians from various

parties KPK has prosecuted so far.

KPK arrests Subang Regent Ojang Suhandi a few month
ago.

5. What is the opinion that he put forward?

- Politicians are experts in misleading voters with their
-

courtesy, generosity, popularity, and perhaps piety.

Voters must carefully screen each candidate before

casting their ballots before it is too late.

Voters and public at large have to remain skeptical and

critical of any candidates.

Voters better rely on findings by credible watchdog like
Indonesian

Corruption

Watch

(ICW)

to

gauge

the

suitability of candidates.
Political parties need to place integrity on top of the list of

criteria if candidate.
Political parties have to lead by example before sending
the anticorruption message to whoever they endorse to
join the election.

6. What is the conclusion?

Politician sometime are not good as they look. Many of them
got nice award but they did crimes and try to hide it so
voters

would

chose

them

in

election.

Therefore,

public/voters have to think critical and find the true

information of the candidates and their characteristic or
what they had done in the past.