Nearly 193 million Indonesians are eligible to vote in presidential and legislative elections on Wednesday.
In this Monday, April 15, 2019 photo, Workers prepare ballot boxes for distribution ahead of April 17 elections in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Last Updated Tuesday, April 16, 2019 8:10AM EDT
About 193 million Indonesians are eligible to vote in presidential and legislative elections Wednesday that will decide who leads a nation that's an outpost of democracy in a neighbourhood of authoritarian governments and is forecast to be among the world's biggest economies by 2030. Surveys show Widodo with a lead of up to 20 percentage points over Subianto. But the pollsters and commentators are nervous, afraid they might be failing to capture facts on the ground in the same way opinion surveys misjudged the 2016 U.S. presidential election and U.K. referendum on European Union membership.
Election day results that are tighter than Widodo's narrow 2014 victory over Subianto are quite possible because "the polls haven't been able to capture the grassroots dynamics," said Alexander Arifanto, a researcher at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.Hard-line Islamic groups that were behind massive 2016 street protests against Jakarta's Widodo-allied governor have campaigned effectively for Subianto for months, Arifanto said.
"Wow is this the photo of Bobby? It's very nice," Subianto said Sunday, while giggling and pointing at the photo, a statement said.
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