Larger than life: will billboards help decide Indonesia’s next president?

When Indonesia was ravaged by a second wave of Covid-19 earlier this year, you would have expected the bulk of scrutiny to be on the Delta variant and its rapid spread across the country. However, public attention was divided between the collapsing health system and the proliferation of billboards and banners across the country that highlighted political elites.One of those on public display is Puan Maharani, the current speaker of parliament and heir apparent to the Sukarno political clan. The…