Indonesia’s election result still weeks away

Bloomberg

For a country that set a record in holding the world’s largest single-day election, the verdict on who emerged victorious from Indonesia’s mammoth exercise isn’t breaking any.
A delay in official results of the presidential election has led its two contenders to claim victory, deepening a divide among the electorate after a seven-month long polarising campaign that centred on the economy and identity politics.
While about a dozen private pollsters called the election in favour of incumbent President Joko Widodo within hours of the end of voting, his challenger Prabowo Subianto disputed the outcome and declared himself the winner, citing his own team’s survey. Widodo, known as Jokowi, won by seven to 11 percentage points, unofficial polls showed.
The General Elections Commission may announce its own quick count result in the next few days, but the final results may not come until May 22.
An estimated 155 million ballots are transported from more than 810,000 polling stations across the archipelago to the capital Jakarta, and are expected to counted before the May 22 announcement deadline.
Almost 81 percent of 193 million eligible voters participated in the first simultaneous presidential and legislative elections on April 17. The turnout was the highest since Indonesia introduced direct presidential elections in 2004, official data show.