PEDS 250 Writing

                  In April 2019, the whole people in country will finally vote again to determine the future of this nation. Rumor has it, Jokowi, our incumbent president, plans to go to the poll once again. But what’s more surprising is, Prabowo, who already lost to Jokowi in the previous 2014 election, is also planned to nominate himself as president candidate once again. Seeing this fact, many people start to consider what if we combine this two, Jokowi become the president candidate and Prabowo as the vice candidate?                   According to a survey conducted by Saiful Mujani Research Center, 67% Indonesians agreed if Prabowo accompanied Jokowi as his vice president candidate in the upcoming election. Now the question is, will this wish come into realization? Unfortunately, (or fortunately) according to so...

                  For half a century, the Colombian government fight over one of its country oldest, largest, and richest guerilla armies, the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Colombia (FARC) or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia . Established in May 1966 with the purpose of overthrowing Colombian government and install a Marxist regime, FARC had changed into an actively involved terrorist group on drug trafficking and politicians kidnapping to fund the camps provision and operations throughout its existence.                   The narcoterrorism and kidnapping practices conducted by FARC must have endangered the many lives of Colombian, making insecurity flourish all over the country and even the region. Seeing this, the Colombian government feels the urge to stop the terror by dealing with the rebellious grou...

            November 2016, Donald Trump won the 2016 US Presidential Election and defeated Democrat’s Hillary Clinton, making him the 45 th President of the United States. Trump won with a slight margin, regardless of pre-election nationwide poll that claimed Hillary was far beyond him and going to win. Some said this winning is because of the change of voters’ behavior, especially in pro-democrat or “Blue Wall” states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and some major big swing states, like Florida and Ohio. Seeing this change, one of the speculation that exist was the presence of huge numbers of fake news that affect the judgement of voters and swing voters, especially before and during the times of election.             This speculation got worsen when reports about Trump hiring Cambridge Analytica (a company that specialized in data mining) during his campaign...