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Polling starts in Indonesia’s legislative elections

Published: 08/04/2009 05:00

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Polling started Thursday morning in Indonesia as voters are moving to polling stations to cast votes for their representatives in the country’s legislative elections.

A woman shows her finger after voting at a polling station in Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, on Apr. 9, 2009. Voting started Thursday morning in Indonesia’s legislative elections as voters are moving to polling stations to cast votes for their representatives in the parliament. (Xinhua/Yue Yuewei)

Polling stations in most areas of the country’s 33 provinces opened at 7 a.m. Western Indonesian Time (0000 GMT) and were set to close at 12 a.m. (0500 GMT).

Before the opening of the polling stations, some citizens had lined up in front of the doors for casting their votes.

In the capital city of Jakarta, a group of people queue up at a polling station in Menteng district for their turn to vote. The voters said they should cast their ballots earlier as they have something to do later.

“We want to elect people’s real representatives for the development of the country,” one of the voters said.

A driver, namely Zainal, said after casting his vote that he was the first one who came to the polling station in Menteng Wadas Utara, central Jakarta. He said he has voted a candidate from the Democratic Party led by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

“The government led by Yudhoyono was serious in fighting against corruption in the country. We hope we could live better under the leadership of Yudhoyono,” he said.

According to local TV reports, the elections in other cities and villages in the country also conducted smoothly.

There are about 171 million eligible voters. They are to elect members of the national parliament, regional representatives and districts parliamentary members from 38 national political parties and six local parties in Aceh province.

Thursday’s elections are the third one since the democratic reforms in 1998 in the world’s largest archipelago.

At the national level, some 11,215 legislative candidates are competing for 560 seats in the House of Representatives (DPR), and 1,109 for 132 seats in the Regional Representatives Council (DPD).

At the regional level, 112,000 people are competing for 1,998 provincial legislative council seats and an estimated 1.5 million others are battling for 15,750 seats on district/municipal legislative councils.

According to the electoral regulations, a party or a coalition which get 25 percent of the votes or 20 percent of the seats in the House of Representatives (DPR) can nominate their candidates for presidency in the July presidential election. So, in fact, the legislative poll is the skirmish for seeking the highest administrative power in the country.

Dozens of foreign observer teams will join hundreds of thousands of observers from 24 local monitoring agencies registered with the General Elections Commission to monitor the elections.

The quick count’s preliminary results are expected in the following day of the elections.

VietNamNet/Xinhuanet

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