Wednesday, July 23, 2014 2:57:44 AM
Indonesia elections: Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo confirmed as next president after official results released
Greg Jennett in Jakarta, wires
Updated 6 hours 15 minutes ago
Photo: Indonesia's presidential candidate Joko Widodo received 53 per cent of the vote.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-22/jokowi-profile/5616020 (Reuters: Darren Whiteside)
Map: Indonesia .. http://maps.google.com/?q=-5,120(Indonesia)&z=5
Joko Widodo has been declared the winner of Indonesia's presidential election and will take office in October.
The election commission has declared that Mr Widodo won the poll with almost 71 million votes or just over 53 per cent.
The former military general Prabowo Subianto received 62.5 million votes or 46.8 per cent.
Indonesia's new president
With his trademark checked shirt and rolled up sleeves, Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo was
most commonly referred to as the 'man of the people' during the election campaign.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-22/jokowi-profile-by-karon-snowdon/5585268
Mr Subianto had thrown the final declaration into confusion with an attempt to withdraw from the process at the 11th hour.
Some supporters had even suggested he was no longer an actual candidate.
But the commission's declaration indicates his status was unchanged.
Ahead of the announcement, Indonesian Democratic Party chairwoman Megawati Sukarnoputri claimed victory for Mr Widodo at a news conference in Jakarta.
"I want to declare that we, the party that supports and puts forward Joko Widodo and Jusuf Kalla (for vice president), has won," she said.
Last minute confusion
Earlier in the day as Indonesia's announcement drew closer, Mr Subianto called the election process undemocratic.
Mr Subianto - who had also claimed victory in the July 9 election - alleged "massive fraud" and said he was withdrawing from the race to lead the world's third-biggest democracy.
"There has been a massive, structured and systematic fraud in the 2014 elections," Mr Subianto said.
"The presidential election, organised by the (election commission), is not democratic," he said, adding the commission was "not fair or transparent".
Mr Subianto, 62, had been widely expected to challenge the result in the Constitutional Court if he lost.
But his lawyer says that will not happen.
It is not clear if he will appeal to a lower court.
Mr Widodo's victory caps a meteoric rise for the former furniture exporter who was born in a riverbank slum.
It is likely to be welcomed by investors who hope he can breathe new life into the economy after a recent slowdown.
Tensions have been high since election day as both sides in the contest accused each other of seeking to tamper with the votes during the lengthy counting process.
There are fears the tension could spark unrest in a country that was hit by repeated outbreaks of violence before former president Suharto's downfall in 1998.
More than 250,000 police were deployed across the country on Tuesday.
Security was particularly tight in the capital Jakarta, with hundreds of police in riot gear stationed around the election commission headquarters, and roads around the centre of the capital closed off to traffic.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-22/indonesia-election-winner-announced/5616014
Greg Jennett in Jakarta, wires
Updated 6 hours 15 minutes ago
Photo: Indonesia's presidential candidate Joko Widodo received 53 per cent of the vote.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-22/jokowi-profile/5616020 (Reuters: Darren Whiteside)
Map: Indonesia .. http://maps.google.com/?q=-5,120(Indonesia)&z=5
Joko Widodo has been declared the winner of Indonesia's presidential election and will take office in October.
The election commission has declared that Mr Widodo won the poll with almost 71 million votes or just over 53 per cent.
The former military general Prabowo Subianto received 62.5 million votes or 46.8 per cent.
Indonesia's new president
With his trademark checked shirt and rolled up sleeves, Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo was
most commonly referred to as the 'man of the people' during the election campaign.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-22/jokowi-profile-by-karon-snowdon/5585268
Mr Subianto had thrown the final declaration into confusion with an attempt to withdraw from the process at the 11th hour.
Some supporters had even suggested he was no longer an actual candidate.
But the commission's declaration indicates his status was unchanged.
Ahead of the announcement, Indonesian Democratic Party chairwoman Megawati Sukarnoputri claimed victory for Mr Widodo at a news conference in Jakarta.
"I want to declare that we, the party that supports and puts forward Joko Widodo and Jusuf Kalla (for vice president), has won," she said.
Last minute confusion
Earlier in the day as Indonesia's announcement drew closer, Mr Subianto called the election process undemocratic.
Mr Subianto - who had also claimed victory in the July 9 election - alleged "massive fraud" and said he was withdrawing from the race to lead the world's third-biggest democracy.
"There has been a massive, structured and systematic fraud in the 2014 elections," Mr Subianto said.
"The presidential election, organised by the (election commission), is not democratic," he said, adding the commission was "not fair or transparent".
Mr Subianto, 62, had been widely expected to challenge the result in the Constitutional Court if he lost.
But his lawyer says that will not happen.
It is not clear if he will appeal to a lower court.
Mr Widodo's victory caps a meteoric rise for the former furniture exporter who was born in a riverbank slum.
It is likely to be welcomed by investors who hope he can breathe new life into the economy after a recent slowdown.
Tensions have been high since election day as both sides in the contest accused each other of seeking to tamper with the votes during the lengthy counting process.
There are fears the tension could spark unrest in a country that was hit by repeated outbreaks of violence before former president Suharto's downfall in 1998.
More than 250,000 police were deployed across the country on Tuesday.
Security was particularly tight in the capital Jakarta, with hundreds of police in riot gear stationed around the election commission headquarters, and roads around the centre of the capital closed off to traffic.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-22/indonesia-election-winner-announced/5616014
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