Voters mark their ballots at a polling centre during elections in Jakarta, Indonesia April 17, 2019. (Reuters photo)
JAKARTA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo has decided to move the capital of Southeast Asia's largest economy away from the crowded main island of Java, the planning minister said on Monday.
"The president chose to relocate the capital city to outside of Java, an important decision," Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro told a news conference after a cabinet meeting, adding that the administration had yet to pick a new location.
He said moving the capital from the coastal city of Jakarta, on the north coast of Java, could take up to 10 years, citing examples such as Brazil, Malaysia and Kazakhstan.
Meanwhile, Widodo led his challenger by about 12% midway through an official tally of votes cast in the April 17 election, weakening his rival’s claim of victory.
Widodo, known as Jokowi, secured 56.2% of the votes, compared to 43.8% for challenger Prabowo Subianto with ballots from 52% of the polling stations tallied, according to an online count by the General Elections Commission. The incumbent won 44.4 million votes to Subianto’s 34.6 million, data from 420,513 voting stations showed.
The commission still must verify the online data, based on a form filled out at each polling station based on counting of paper ballots by May 22.
The data backs up unofficial quick counts from about a dozen private pollsters that showed Jokowi with a comfortable win, dealing a blow to Prabowo’s claim of having garnered 62 % of the votes. The former Suharto-era general has claimed “massive fraud” in the election, a charge authorities said was “unfounded” and meant to “de-legitimise the government and election organisers.”
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April 29, 2019 at 04:03PM
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