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SME Times News Bureau | 18 Apr, 2019
Indonesian President Joko Widodo declared victory on Thursday in the
national election amid opposition allegations of electoral fraud.
Widodo
claimed victory based on unofficial results which said that he had
received 54 per cent of the votes in the Wednesday election, while his
rival and former military general Prabowo Subianto secured 45 per cent
support.
Widodo said initial vote counts were a scientific method
of calculating the results and they had been 99 per cent accurate in
earlier elections, Efe news reported.
The President urged his supporters to wait for the official results, set to be declared in May.
He told journalists that he had received congratulatory messages on his re-election from around 20 world leaders.
Subianto
also claimed victory during a public speech. He said he had evidence
that there had been attempts of electoral fraud in villages and cities
across Indonesia.
The Election Commission (KPU) said polls were
held without major problems and analysts agreed, citing the difficulty
of carrying out electoral fraud to an extent that could alter results,
due to the presence of observers and the supervisory methods in place.
Both
leaders appealed for calm in their speeches, although the former
general alleged irregularities in the electoral rolls during the
campaign and threatened to go to the courts or mobilize "people's power"
unless the issue was resolved.
Earlier on Thursday, Security
Affairs Minister Wiranto warned of strict action to counter any threats
to democracy after the election, adding that armed forces would arrest
and "neutralize" those who indulged in actions that disturbed peace and
national security.
The President, popularly known as Jokowi, said
in a TV interview that he had sent a member of his team to urge Prabowo
and his running mate - entrepreneur Sandiago Uno - to help in pacifying
the atmosphere.
More than 192 million Indonesians were eligible
to vote in the third biggest democracy in the world, where the
presidential and legislative elections were held simultaneously for the
first time, with around 20,000 candidates in the fray.
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