Following a bitter six-month campaign, over 800,000 polling stations opened across the sprawling nation today as over 192 million registered Indonesian voters across 17,000 islands gear up to cast their ballots.
Millions of Indonesians made their way to polling booths on Wednesday to determine their new president and more than 20,000 legislative seats in the world’s biggest one-day democratic election.
In what has been called one of the world’s most-complicated ballots, Indonesians will simultaneously vote for both the president and parliament for the first time in the country’s history. Voters will cast five physical ballots to determine the president, vice president as well as regional and national legislative candidates, reported NDTV.
President Joko Widodo, a former furniture salesman from the island of Java, is up for re-election against Prabowo Subianto, a former general and ex-son-in-law of the country’s longtime leader Suharto. The two had previously faced-off in the last election. Widodo’s win in 2014 marked the first time an Indonesian leader with no affinity to the military or political elites had been chosen as the head of state.
Widodo is the frontrunner and has maintained a double-digit lead over his opponent in recent months, according to most opinion polls. But Prabowo disputed the predictions on Tuesday, telling reporters at a press conference that he expected to earn 63 percent of the votes.
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