Today's Top 3 News: Prabowo Still Leads KPU Real Count with 56.8%, Anies 25.23%, Ganjar 17.97%
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16 February 2024 15:55 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Tempo English rounded the top three news on Friday, February 16, 2024. Here are the highlights: Prabowo Still Leads KPU Real Count with 56.8%, Anies 25.23%, Ganjar 17.97%, YLBHI Fears Resolution of Human Rights Cases Will Stall If Prabowo Elected, and Foreign Observer Suspects Russian Interference in Indonesia's Election.
The following is the list of the top 3 news on Tempo English today:
1. Prabowo Still Leads KPU Real Count with 56.8%, Anies 25.23%, Ganjar 17.97%
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The General Election Commission’s (KPU) real count as of 11 am today, February 16, indicated that Prabowo Subianto remains on track to win the presidential election. The vote-counting process is still ongoing, and the official outcome is set to be announced on March 20.
Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabumin Raka are currently dominating the race by a wide margin with 31,638,187 votes (56.8 percent). Rivals Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar received 13,994,245 votes (25.15 percent) and Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud Md trailed behind with 10,014,895 votes (18 percent).
According to the KPU's official website, the real count has covered 51.28 percent of the total 823,236 polling stations (TPS).
2. YLBHI Fears Resolution of Human Rights Cases Will Stall If Prabowo Elected
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) chairman Muhammad Isnur believed that if Prabowo Subianto becomes president, the resolution of past human rights cases would be impeded.
“Like the kidnapping case, there will be no progress because it involves him (Prabowo). So we are very worried that the past human rights settlement will be stalled, closed, or even reversed,” Isnur told Tempo on Thursday, February 15.
3. Foreign Observer Suspects Russian Interference in Indonesia's Election
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The 2024 elections' voting day has ended with quick counts by numerous agencies showing Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka leading against their contenders with over 50 percent of votes bagged. Amidst this festivities of democracy, a certain observer expresses concern over Russian influence in the election.
In a column dubbed 'The threat of Russian interference in Indonesia's elections is real' published by Euro News, co-founder, and executive director of the Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) Ross Burley wrote that as the world's third biggest democracy, Indonesia was preparing up for massive elections, with a high potential for the negative impact of disinformation, in particular state-sponsored disinformation.
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