A worker prepares election materials to be distributed to polling stations at a sports hall in Jakarta, Indonesia April 16, 2019. REUTERS/Edgar Su
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesians vote in the world's biggest single-day election on Wednesday, with polling stations opening first in the east of the sprawling equatorial archipelago after a six-month campaign to choose a new president and parliament.
President Joko Widodo, a furniture businessman who entered politics 14 years ago as a small-city mayor, is seeking re-election against former general Prabowo Subianto, whom he narrowly defeated in the last election, in 2014.
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