Based on an unofficial count, a former military general who was once prohibited from entering Australia due to his human rights record is expected to be the next president of Indonesia.
The largest single-day election in history was expected to draw in close to 205 million votes from Indonesians.
Prabowo Subianto, 72, is poised to become Indonesia’s oldest leader since autocratic president Suharto, who was 77 years old when he left office in 1998, although vote counting is still ongoing. Gibran Rakanuming Raka, the son of outgoing President Joko Widodo, who ran with Prabowo for vice president, will accompany him.
As the vote totals began to roll in, both shared a cartoon of themselves on Instagram standing in front of the national emblem of Indonesia. The result based on ballots counted so far largely reflected opinion polls, which had all but confirmed Prabowo, as he is widely known, was on track to secure the presidency, sucking the suspense out of the count.
But the biggest uncertainty had revolved around the size of his victory. Unofficial quick count tallies from polling booths across the country put Prabowo at a 58 percent lead in nearly 70 percent of ballots sampled, which is clear of the 50 percent needed to win in a single round.
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