Indonesia has rules to handhold foreigners who are keen to observe its political affairs, and had enacted a law in 2008 to deal with disinformation and fake news spread through the Internet.
In elections, external observers are invited to see from close quarters how the world's third-largest democracy conducts its polls.
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