Voting began in the eastern parts of Indonesia in the first simultaneous presidential and legislative elections in which incumbent Joko Widodo is seeking re-election to run the world’s fourth-most populous nation for another five years.
Voters in Papua and Maluku are the first to cast their ballots in the polls that open at 7 a.m. local time Wednesday, according to the General Elections Commission. Almost 191 million residents are eligible to vote across the country.
