The prospect of another five years in office for President Joko Widodo cheered I...
JAKARTA - The prospect of another five years in office for President Joko Widodo cheered Indonesia’s financial markets on Thursday after unofficial election results indicated a comfortable win for the incumbent.
The “quick counts” showed Widodo winning the popular vote with at least 54 percent, giving him a lead of around eight percentage points over former general Prabowo Subianto, who was narrowly defeated by Widodo in last election five years ago. Prabowo later said the real count gave him 62 percent, though the election commission’s website put him at about 45 percent on Thursday morning based on results from 808 of more than 800,000 polling stations
Widodo said on Wednesday the results indicated he had regained the presidency of the world’s fourth-most-populous nation, but urged supporters to wait for the election commission to announce official results.
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