REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto reiterated the importance of corruption eradication for a clean government if he and his running mate Hatta Rajasa are elected as Indonesia's president and vice president in the upcoming presidential election.

Prabowo expressed his pair's commitment to working hard to create a corruption-free government to prosper.

Prabowo made the statement in a presidential debate, an initiative of the Indonesian General Election Commission (KPU) here on Monday as part of KPU's campaign program for the election scheduled on July 9, 2014.

The first debate, which was moderated by the director of the Anti-Corruption Study Center of the Yogyakarta-based Gajahmada University, Zaenal Arifin Mochtar, will be followed by debates among the Prabowo Subianto - Hatta Rajasa pair and Joko Widodo (Jokowi) - Jusuf Kalla duo.