Tuesday, July 22, 2014

New President for Indonesia

In the next few hours, we will have an official announcement from the Election General Committee (KPU) about who will become the next Indonesian president, even  though the results are already known by many people, thanks to many quick counts hold by many organizations.

There are 132,896,438 valid votes for this year's election and based on the final calculation, president candidate no 2 (Joko Widodo and Jusuf Kalla) got 70,633,576 votes (53.15 %) while candidate no 1 (Prabowo Subianto and Hatta Rajasa) got 62,262,844 votes (46.85 %). There are 8,370,732 vote differences and it's more than enough to make candidate no 2 to become the next president of Indonesia.