Prabowo-Hatta Pair Wins Election in West Java

Bandung, W Java (Antara) - West Java office of the General Elections Commission (KPU) announced that the Prabowo-Hatta presidential and vice presidential candidate pair had won the presidential race against rival Joko Widodo (Jokowi)-Jusuf Kalla (JK) duo in West Java. "The West Java KPU Office's plenary meeting has finished. The results of the July 9 presidential elections have shown that the Prabowo-Hatta team had won the race," West Java KPU chairman Yayat Hidayat said after meeting here on Friday. The result of the recapitulation had recorded that the Prabowo-Hatta team had won 14,167,381 votes or 59.78 percent against Jokowi-JK's vote count of 9,530,315 or 40.22 percent. A total of 23,990,089 people had cast their votes of the 33,821,378 registered eligible voters on the KPU's list in West Java. Indonesia had organized a free and democratic presidential election on July 9, 2014, which was contested by only two pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates: Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa and Jokowi-JK. Prabowo Subianto is a retired military general and the chairman of Gerindra (Great Indonesia Movement) Party, while his running mate, Hatta Rajasa, is a former coordinating minister for economic affairs and the chairman of the National Mandate Party (PAN). Jokowi is Jakarta's governor and a cadre of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), and his running mate, JK, is a former vice president and a senior politician of the Golkar Party. The Jokowi-JK pair is supported by five political parties: the Indonesia Democratic Party Struggle (PDIP), the Nation Awakening Party (PKB), the People's Conscience Party (Hanura), the Justice and Indonesian Unity Party (PKPI), and the National Democrats Party (Nasdem) established by Surya Paloh, owner of Metro TV and the Media Indonesia newspaper. The Prabowo-Hatta pair is supported by Gerindra, PAN, the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), the United Development Party (PPP), the Moon and Star Party (PBB), and the Golkar Party, whose current chairman is Aburizal Bakrie, owner of TV One. A total of 190,307,134 eligible voters had been registered by the KPU for the July 9 presidential election, consisting of 188,268,423 voters at home and 2,038,711 overseas. (*)