Indonesia’s opposition cries foul over voter list

Bloomberg

Indonesia’s opposition has warned of street protests if irregularities in the country’s electoral roll are not resolved before the presidential poll later this month.
Political parties backing Prabowo Subianto’s bid for presidency will legally challenge the outcome if the former general loses the poll to incumbent Joko Widodo in the
April 17 vote, Hashim Djojohadikusumo, communications director for Prabowo’s campaign team, told reporters in Jakarta. As many as 18.8 million names on the electoral roll may be fraudulent or inaccurate, he said.
The allegations of voter fraud are similar to the charges made by Prabowo, as Subianto is popularly known, in 2014 after losing to Widodo in a
bitterly contested election.
A lawsuit challenging the result was rejected by the country’s Constitutional Court. The opposition parties have already petitioned the General Elections Commission, known as KPU, about the irregularities, Djojohadikusumo said.
There are “serious questions about how the election is being run,” said Djojohadikusumo, who is also Prabowo’s brother.
“There are neighbouring countries where exactly the same thing has happened. In Thailand, it happened last weekend. We are afraid the same thing will happen in
this country.”
The election commission, which ordered an investigation into allegations of voter fraud last month, has yet to release its findings.