Indonesia to probe ‘scattered’ ballot papers


  • Nation
  • Friday, 12 Apr 2019

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s Election Commission says it will send officials to Malaysia after videos online allegedly showed thousands of voting papers for next week’s polls being scattered throughout a warehouse.

One of the videos showed police at the warehouse in Selangor and people holding ballot papers and commenting they’d been marked in favour of Indonesian President Joko Widodo and legislative candidates for parties in his coalition.

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