Indonesians voted in the world's biggest single-day election across the spr...
across the sprawling equatorial archipelago on Wednesday following a six-month campaign to choose a new president and parliament., a former furniture salesman who launched his political career as a small-city mayor, is standing for re-election in a contest with ex-general Prabowo Subianto, whom he narrowly defeated in 2014.
The election is a huge logistical operation in the world’s third-largest democracy with 245,000 candidates vying for votes cast during a mere eight hours. Nearly 350,000 police and military personnel, in addition to 1.6 million paramilitary officers, will fan out across the archipelago of 17,000 islands to safeguard the vote.
As president, Widodo was saddled with expectations he could fix a host of problems, from human rights abuses to pervasive graft. Jokowi, as he is popularly known, also inherited an economy coming off a commodities boom, and faced an obstructive parliament.
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