{"id":61881,"date":"2024-02-14T08:48:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T23:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/13\/minister-linked-to-indonesias-former-dictatorship-ahead-in-pre-election-polls"},"modified":"2024-02-14T23:54:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T14:54:40","slug":"indonesia-election-hundreds-of-millions-go-to-the-polls-to-vote-for-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61881","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia\u2019s defence minister vows to be leader for all as polls suggest election win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sample counts show Prabowo Subianto, former special commander under Suharto dictatorship, taking 59% of vote<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/05\/2024-indonesia-general-election-everything-you-need-to-know\">Indonesia\u2019s general election: key facts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Indonesian defence minister, Prabowo Subianto, a former general dogged by allegations of human rights abuses, has promised to be a leader for all Indonesians after unofficial figures showed he was on course to win the country\u2019s presidential race.<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 million people were eligible to vote on Wednesday in the world\u2019s largest single-day election, a race to decide who should succeed the popular outgoing president, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/joko-widodo\">Joko Widodo<\/a>, known as Jokowi, as well as future executive and legislative representatives at all administrative levels across the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/13\/minister-linked-to-indonesias-former-dictatorship-ahead-in-pre-election-polls\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sample counts show Prabowo Subianto, former special commander under Suharto dictatorship, taking 59% of voteIndonesia\u2019s general election: key factsThe Indonesian defence minister, Prabowo Subianto, a former general dogged by allegations of human rights&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,156,434,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","category-joko-widodo","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61881"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61907,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61881\/revisions\/61907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}