Rivals claim fraud as Prabowo set to be next president

Winning pair: Prabowo (left) and Gibran thanking their supporters after the election in Jakarta. — AFP)

WHILE signs indicate that Indonesian Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto will be the country’s next president, not everyone is convinced, with some alleging that the election process has been unfair and dubbing it the “death of democracy”.

Prabowo is on course to win the election by a wide margin, election commission results showed on Feb 16 with about 51% of votes counted.