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This study explores modality employed in the presidential debate of Indonesia 2019. Modality is either expressed as the speakers judgement of the probabilities or the obligation involved what is saying.In political setting, language has fundamental role in conveyance of political factors stage managed and pre planed goals the audience in order to provoke, revail, and persuade the audience toward the intended goals and meaning, Woods 2006 The aim of presidential debate to express their vission and mission and also persuade the audience to vote them.The presidential election candidates will have argument battle among Mr Jokowi and Mr Prabowo subianto to express their opinion, idea and and thought in topic being discussed. There are three problems in this study, namely types of modality in Indonesian Presidential debate, the dominant modality and the explanation on the modality context. The speech transcription were analyzed by applying the theory of Systematic Functional Linguistic.The occurance of modality were qualitatively analyzad by changing them into percentage to determine the portion namely modalization and modulation.This can be a way election to show the some vision as the president of Indonesia.