One of the pollsters, the Jakarta-based CSIS, showed Widodo with 56.7 percent and Prabowo at 43.3 per cent, after just over half of the votes were counted. Indonesia’s election: the people, issues and preparations“We are not claiming anything yet,” CSIS Executive Director Philips Vermonte told Reuters. Our staff are validating the data.”Asked to comment on the “quick count” results, Prabowo campaign spokesman Dahnil Anzar Simanjuntak said that numbers based on 50 percent of votes was not enough. Widodo, a furniture businessman who entered politics 14 years ago as a small-city mayor, narrowly defeated Prabowo in the last election, in 2014. The winner may be known by late on Wednesday, though official results will not come until May.

Source: The Express Tribune April 17, 2019 05:49 UTC