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| 'Indonesia's Jokowi leads with 80% of votes' |
| 2014-07-17 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] Jakarta's populist governor looks set to become Indonesia's next president, according to a private tally of eighty percent of the votes cast, as his rival lashed out at critics, including the capital's biggest English-language newspaper. The Elections Commission (KPU) is to officially announce the result on July 22, but a number of private groups are maintaining counts of the votes as they are published on the commission's website. One such group, www.kawalpemilu.org, showed Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo in front with 53% of the vote after 80% of the count. "This is a crowd sourcing project based on open data released by the KPU," said Elisa Sutanudjaja, an administrator for kawalpemilu.org. "It's based on the official (tallies) uploaded by the KPU but...there are some technical problems like not all the documents are uploaded correctly." |
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