A Balinese woman casts her ballots at a polling station in Kuta on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on December 9, 2015. Tens of millions of Indonesians were voting on December 9 in the country's first nationwide regional elections, the latest step in years-long efforts to strengthen democracy following the end of authoritarian rule. AFP PHOTO / SONNYTUMBELAKA
JAKARTA: Tens of millions of Indonesians were voting Wednesday in the country’s first nationwide regional elections, the latest step in years-long efforts to strengthen democracy following the end of authoritarian rule.
About 100 million voters are eligible to elect 269 provincial governors, district heads and city mayors, with polls taking place in around half the local administrations of the world’s third-biggest democracy. Direct elections for local leaders were introduced a decade ago, when power was heavily decentralised as democratic reforms were rolled out in the years after the 1998 downfall of dictator Suharto.
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