Jakarta: The voting process for the presidential election continues in Indonesia today, in which there is a competition between 259 thousand candidates to elect the new president of the country.
According to the world news agency, there are more than two and a half million candidates for 20 thousand posts in the 17 thousand islands of Indonesia, the third largest democracy in the world, who will choose the new president of the country.
It should be noted that the presidential candidate Omidora needs more than 50% of the votes in half of the country’s provinces and 20% of the votes in order to win outright, and if not, the president is elected in a second round.
A successor to President Joko Widodo is likely to be elected by this evening. It could possibly be the former governor “Prabu Subianto” who has also served as a commander in the Special Forces.
Two recent polls predict that Prabowo will win a majority of 52 or 51 percent of the vote and avoid a runoff in the presidential election.
Voters have 6 hours to vote in Indonesia. In the capital, Jakarta, due to thunderstorms and storms, flood waters entered some areas and the polling process was halted.
