Indonesia Elections: World’s largest single day election, election of these representatives including the President

Indonesians cast their ballots across the Southeast Asian archipelago on Wednesday in an election to succeed President Joko Widodo that could determine who takes charge of the world’s third-largest democracy. Some 259,000 candidates are contesting 20,600 positions on 17,000 islands in the world’s biggest one-day election, but all eyes are on the presidency and Widodo’s ambitious agenda after a decade in charge of Southeast Asia’s largest economy. .

The race to replace the popular Widodo is pitting two former governors, Ganjar Pranowo and Anies Baswedan, against controversial frontrunner Prabowo Subianto, a former special forces commander best known as a top lieutenant of Indonesia’s late strongman ruler in the 1990s. used to go.

“I want a candidate who will maintain the good policies that have been in place for the last 10 years,” entrepreneur Novan Maradona, 42, said after voting in Central Jakarta. If we start from scratch, it will take time. Voters have six hours to cast their ballot. Indonesia has three time zones and polling stations have already opened in the east and voting is over by 0600 GMT in the western regions. Voting got off to a slow start in Jakarta, with major storms causing flooding in parts of the capital.