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.
His friends are divided over who to support, and have been debating the election, conscious of the huge role younger people will play in the vote on 14 February. “Half of the active voters are young people. So it’s a very, very big demographic,” says Nafis, who is from Medan, North Sumatra.
