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Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) chairwoman Megawati Soekarnoputri has drawn attention to surveys commissioned by several pollsters, which she claimed had always placed the electability of incumbent candidate pair Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama and Djarot Saiful Hidayat below that of their rivals, Anies Baswedan and Sandiaga Uno in the runoff Jakarta gubernatorial election.
Gerindra Party chairman Prabowo Subianto has said he is optimistic that Anies Baswedan and Sandiaga Uno, the gubernatorial candidate pair his party is supporting in the 2017 Jakarta election, will get a victory in the second round of the election.
The Karanganyar Police in Central Java staged on Tuesday the unannounced examination of vehicles bound for Jakarta to prevent any mass mobilization during Wednesday’s gubernatorial runoff election in the country’s capital.
As many as 2,400 Indonesian Military personnel from the Jakarta Military District Command (Kodam Jaya) and the West Java and Banten Military District Command (Kodam Siliwangi) arrived in West Jakarta on Monday afternoon to help secure the April 19 runoff election.
With sectarian tension running high in the run-up to the Jakarta gubernatorial runoff election, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo gathered on Monday top security and intelligence officials for a meeting to discuss an extensive security measure that would include the deployment of more than 60,000 security personnel in the capital.
