Who Won Indonesian Election

Indonesia s president looks to be on course for re election according to unofficial results released within hours of polls closing.

Who won indonesian election. The long election campaign has been marked by fake news hoaxes the rise of identity politics and political islam. Jokowi s 85 million votes were the most votes cast for a single candidate in any democratic election in indonesia s history exceeding the record of his predecessor susilo bambang yudhoyono who won 73 million votes in 2009. Both men had already been engaged in a fierce contest in 2014 one that was only narrowly won by jokowi.

Since then the president is elected for a five year term as are the 575 member people s representative council dewan perwakilan rakyat dpr the 136 seat regional representative council dewan perwakilan daerah in. Joko widodo looks likely to have secured a comfortable win over his rival in indonesian elections according to unofficial quick counts. The indonesian president joko widodo has announced he has won re election after receiving an estimated 54 of the vote backtracking on his promise to wait for official results after his.

Indonesia has budgeted 24 8 trillion rupiah us 1 8 billion to conduct the election although the opposition recently questioned the electoral roll claiming they have identified millions of. The election was described as one of the most complicated single day ballots in global history. Indonesia s election commission will officially declare the result on may 22.

Indonesia s 2019 presidential election is likely to become another battle between incumbent president joko widodo jokowi and gerindra party chairman prabowo subianto. Indonesian president joko widodo is on track to win a second term preliminary election results have shown but former general prabowo subianto says exit polls show he won 52 per cent of the vote. Elections in indonesia have taken place since 1955 to elect a legislature at a national level indonesian people did not elect a head of state the president until 2004.

On wednesday evening 11 04 subianto formally accepted the mandate of the gerindra party to compete as presidential.