Scares, superheroes and lots of fun

Surabaya: Dressed like Count Dracula, Yasim Adnan doesn’t look much like an election official but neither do his staff, who are decked out as mummies and spooky nuns with blood pouring from their eyes.

The 37-year-old Indonesian presided over one of the creepiest ballot stations in the Muslim-majority country yesterday as it held a giant election that featured some 190 million voters and 245,000 candidates vying for public office, including a new president.