文档介绍：In a matter of days, 186 million Indonesians will have voted in the world’s biggest direct presidential election. They face an unusually binary choice for Indonesia’s 7th president, with only two qualifying candidates: Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo (“Jokowi”) and former Suharto son-in-law and general, Prabowo Subianto. To help inform debate about the election and its impact on the energy industry, we asked two independent experts, in Indonesian politics and investment respectively, for their views on the candidates’ policies and ability to affect the country’s oil and gas future. A critical element to both campaigns is Indonesia’s ongoing economic prosperity and increased growth rate targets. Indonesia’s energy sector is a significant economic constituent, representing % of GDP in 2012 with oil and gas alone providing 16% of state revenues. However, production in ASEAN’s historically dominant oil and gas producer is stagnating in the face of soaring demand, prompting an ever-expanding deficit gap currently being filled by imports. Imports have fuelled pressure on the country’s current and trade accounts, which will only increase without increased oil and gas production. This pressure is exacerbated by fuel subsidies dating back to Indonesia’s OPEC membership (it exited in 2009), which currently cost the government more than oil and gas reven