The Election

Abstract

Two mayor candidates of Kupang City mayor fight to be the number one person in next term of office. They are Nikodemus Seran and Beni Muskanan. Nik with his partner, Simon Kase, and Beni Muskanan and his partner, Agus Halungdaka do campaign in many regions in Kupang in order to share their ideas and programs to the people. Knowing that he has no better programs compared to Beni-Agus’ programs, Nik-Simon start to play with SARA issue, in order to attack Beni, the only Moslem candidate. Marten, the leader of Nik-Simon campaign team, provoke the unemployed people to attack Beni, and pay them low to do demonstration against Beni. This works and finally Nik-Simon win the election with the help of the unemployed people. However, Marten then hears that in their second year leading Kupang, Nik and Simon deals with corruption of the budget for medical equipment supply. Marten, whose daughter ever suffered for blood cancer/leukemia, feel very angry because he knows that medical equipment in Kupang is very limited, till he needed to bring her daughter to Surabaya for the treatment. So, he mobilizes the mass he ever provoked to protest against Nik and Simon, but they don’t succeed because of the incompleted evidences.