Voting under way to choose Indonesia’s new president and other leaders

Voters casting their vote at a polling station in Lebak Bulus, South Jakarta on Feb 14. - ST PHOTO: ARIFFIN JAMAR

JAKARTA: Voting is under way in Indonesia, with more than 200 million people expected to cast their ballots for the country’s next president and vice-president on Feb 14.

In what has been called the world’s biggest single-day elections, voters across the archipelago, which stretches across three time zones, are also electing their parliamentarians as well as their executive and legislative representatives at all administrative levels.