JAKARTA: Indonesia's young democracy moves up a notch tomorrow with its first direct presidential election, and voters appear set to dump the incumbent and choose a poetry-writing, guitar-playing ex-general with a Mr Clean image.
President Megawati Sukarnoputri is trailing in voter surveys to Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the former security minister who resigned from her Cabinet several months ago to seek her job.
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