In a low-rise Jakarta office block, young Indonesian supporters of President Jok...
JAKARTA - In a low-rise Jakarta office block, young Indonesian supporters of President Joko Widodo sit hunched over screens to count photographed vote tallies from polling stations, two weeks after an election to lead the world’s third-biggest democracy.
Retired general Prabowo has said his poll put him on 62 percent and alleged widespread cheating, raising the prospect of a legal challenge when official results are released next month, and the risk of street protests.In 2014, Prabowo also claimed victory, before contesting the results at the Constitutional Court, which confirmed Widodo’s win.
Nonetheless, he said the transparency of the vote count and public trust in Indonesia’s election agencies should “ensure that, in the end, the final results will be seen as legitimate”. “The way we work, everybody verifies everybody’s else’s work,” Ciptadi said, adding that any discrepancies were reported to the election commission, which had been very responsive.Prabowo’s running mate, Sandiaga Uno, said his campaign was conducting its own verification of votes.
“It’s important for democracy to have more varieties of data so that we can compare,” campaign communications director Usman Kansong told Reuters.
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