on April 30th, 2009

The electoral results are coming in slowly but data from the KPU and quick counts tally fairly closely for the more popular parties. Out of the thirty-eight parties that contested the election only fourteen managed to get more than one percent of the vote in the official results to date. Only nine parties managed to [...]

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on April 9th, 2009

The elections were held today and there were about 40% of Indonesians who did not bother to vote. Some people blame the Elections Committee saying that not enough was done to finalize the voter lists but nobody has yet blamed voter apathy. With over thirty parties vying for seats in four separate elections (DPR, DPR [...]

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