Indonesians vote in world's biggest one-day election

Most opinion polls give Joko Widodo a double-digit lead, but the opposition says the race is much closer.

A worker prepares election materials to be distributed to polling stations at a sports hall in Jakarta, Indonesia on April 16, 2019.

Around 100 worshippers, mostly supporters of Prabowo dressed in white, gathered at a central Jakarta mosque for prayers at dawn before casting their votes when polls open at 7 am local time . “The system is not foolproof, but there are enough checks and balances in place,” Kevin O’Rourke, a political analyst and author of the newsletter Reformasi Weekly, said this week.An unexpected win for the challenger could trigger a brief selloff in financial markets that have priced in a Widodo victory, analysts say.

A moderate Muslim from central Java, Widodo had to burnish his Islamic credentials after smear campaigns and hoax stories accused him of being anti-Islam, a communist or too close to China, all politically damaging in Indonesia.

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