Indonesian political sniping offers presidential hopeful Jokowi some help


  • World
  • Tuesday, 22 Apr 2014

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian presidential frontrunner Joko "Jokowi" Widodo looks to be getting some extra help from the bickering that threatens to undermine his chief rivals to become the next leader of the world's third biggest democracy.

No political party managed to win the required number of votes in this month's general election to be allowed to nominate on its own a candidate for a July 9 presidential poll, forcing them to cut deals with other parties.

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