Graphic shows results of Indonesia’s general elections.
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May 21, 2019 - Joko Widodo has been re-elected as Indonesia’s president following the poll in April. Former general Prabowo Subianto has refused to concede defeat after claiming widespread cheating.

The Election Commission said Widodo won 55.5% of the vote in the April 17 election to 45.5% for his challenger, ultra-nationalist former general Prabowo Subianto.

Subianto, who also lost to Widodo in 2014, has alleged massive election fraud in the world's third-largest democracy but hasn't provided any credible evidence.

Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, is an outpost of democracy in a Southeast Asian neighbourhood of authoritarian governments and is forecast to be among the world's biggest economies by 2030.

A second term for Widodo, the first Indonesian president from outside the Jakarta elite, could further cement the country's two decades of democratisation.

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PUBLISHED:21/05/2019; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Newscom
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