Indonesia Presidential Standoff Hinges on Graft-Free Tally
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Former general Prabowo Subianto, “confident” he won Indonesia’s presidential race, refuses to accept unofficial counts showing he lost to Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo, focusing attention on the body charged with confirming votes in the world’s third-biggest democracy.
The seven-member General Elections Commission is tallying ballots from the July 9 ballot, with official results due in less than two weeks. About 140 million votes need to be added up across an archipelago that would stretch from New York to Alaska, with the numbers passing through village, district, provincial and regional tabulation centers before reaching Jakarta.