Off the wire
• Former provincial party chief sentenced to 15 years for graft  • Americans divided over Trump's first three weeks in White House: poll  • Bleak future for New Zealand's glaciers after "unusual" advance: scientists  • Vietnam vows to handle case of Chinese tourist beaten by Vietnamese border defense officer  • 9,000 soldiers sent to Rio de Janeiro ahead of potential police strike  • Natural disasters leave more than 43,000 homeless in Peru  • Burundi asks refugees to return home  • China-Venezuela commission oversees refinery expansion project  • World Wide Fund for Nature to support Myanmar in waste disposal system  • 1st LD: Indonesians start vote for governors, heads of districts, mayors  
You are here: 　 Home

2nd LD: Indonesia holds gubernatorial polls

Xinhua, February 15, 2017 Adjust font size:

Indonesia held its gubernatorial election on Wednesday to pick up governors, heads of districts and mayors with the strongest competition happening in the country's capital city of Jakarta.

It was the second simultaneous direct election since 2004 in the country.

Over 41 million eligible voters went to polling stations across the country to elect a total of 337 pairs of candidates who had offered various measures to boost development in their territory during campaign.

In Jakarta, the contest involves incumbent Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, who is supported by the country's largest political party Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, the oldest son of former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who leads the Indonesian Democratic Party.

Another candidate is former Education Minister Anies Baswedan who is backed by the third biggest Great Indonesia Movement Party or Gerindra. Endit