Indonesia vote's initial results show President Joko Widodo cruising to reelection
by Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times
Apr 17, 2019
3 minutes
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian President Joko Widodo was poised to win a second term Wednesday as leader of the world's most populous Muslim nation, with initial election results showing the moderate incumbent comfortably ahead of his rival, a nationalist former military general.
Samples of votes tallied by independent polling agencies showed the president, better known as Jokowi, winning about 55% of the vote in a rematch with Prabowo Subianto,
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