{"id":21550,"date":"2014-07-08T14:24:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T04:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aiya.org.au\/?p=3988"},"modified":"2021-07-10T18:40:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T08:40:55","slug":"election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/2014\/07\/08\/election-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Who To Watch This Election Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/34.101.188.30\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Indonesias-choice-graphic1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3994\" src=\"http:\/\/34.101.188.30\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Indonesias-choice-graphic1.jpg\" alt=\"Indonesia's choice graphic\" width=\"553\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, nearly 190 million Indonesian voters have the chance to choose the president who will replace Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in October.\u00a0If you\u2019re a political tragic and want to tune in to watch the voting and counting unfold, here are AIYA\u2019s tips for a fun and informative election day.<\/p>\n<p>Kick back, open a cool <i>tehbotol <\/i>and witness the miracle of democracy at work.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Polling stations are open from 07:00 until 13:00 local time\u2014since Indonesia has three time zones, that means the first votes are cast in Papua at 08:00 AEST and the voting stops in Java and Sumatra at 16:00 AEST.<\/li>\n<li>Did we mention that this election is <i>huge? <\/i>It\u2019s the world\u2019s biggest single-day direct presidential election, with nearly 190 million voters on thousands of islands eligible to participate. That means that, with the limited resources available to it, Indonesia\u2019s electoral commission, the Komisi Pemilihan Umum (KPU), can\u2019t possibly count the votes on election day like we&#8217;re used to in Australia. The official KPU numbers won\u2019t be released until some time after the election day.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">So, private polling agencies team up with TV networks to release \u2018quick counts\u2019, which are based upon data sent in by reporters stationed at a randomly-selected sample of voting booths. These quick counts are generally accurate to within a few percentage points\u2014but given that recent opinion polls predict an extremely close result tomorrow, the quick counts potentially may not make it clear who has actually won on Wednesday.\u00a0It may take days, weeks or even months to know the official outcome if the result is particularly tight.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>All the major television networks will be running live election returns based on quick counts. Try streaming online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mivo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mivo<\/a>\u00a0or following the links to &#8216;Live Streaming&#8217; on the TV stations&#8217; websites.<\/li>\n<li>Keep in mind: this Indonesian election has been marked by some pretty shameless barracking from media outlets aligned to one candidate or another. Metro TV is pro-Jokowi, and tvOne is pro-Prabowo, as are RCTI and MNC. More neutral sources include Kompas TV, BeritaSatu, SCTV or the TransTV stations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b style=\"font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em;\">Online &amp; social media<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The candidates\u2019 official Twitter accounts are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/Prabowo08\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Prabowo08<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/jokowi_do2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Jokowi_do2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/aiya_national\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@AIYA_National<\/a> will be red hot with RT&#8217;s and updates on the days&#8217; developments, so keep an eye on us!<\/p>\n<p>There are too many great Indonesian tweeps to mention, but those who tweet at least partially in English will include academic\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/yohanessulaiman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@YohanesSulaiman<\/a>, the\u00a0<em>Jakarta Post<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/simplysite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@simplysita<\/a>, the <em>Jakarta Globe&#8217;s<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/aqbastian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@aqbastian<\/a>, and political analyst\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/pjvermonte\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@pjvermonte<\/a>. Keep an eye out on their feeds for RT&#8217;s from other sharp Indonesians.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Aussies watching from Jakarta will include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/_davemcrae_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@_DaveMcRae_<\/a> from Melbourne University, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/catriona_cc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@catriona_cc<\/a> of the Lowy Institute,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/aubreybelford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@AubreyBelford<\/a> of Reuters, freelance corro <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/katieolamb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@katieolamb<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/mbachelard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@mbachelard<\/a> from Fairfax. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Also make sure to follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/sidneyipac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@SidneyIPAC<\/a> and Lowy&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/connellyal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ConnellyAL<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Jakarta Globe <\/em>team\u00a0will maintain an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartaglobe.com\/live-election-coverage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">English-language live blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">ANU&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/asiapacific.anu.edu.au\/newmandala\/category\/indonesia-votes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>New Mandala\u00a0<\/em>live blog<\/a>\u00a0will be manned by AIYA friends\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/indobaker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Indobaker<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/rosstapsell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@RossTapsell<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/gammonator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Gammonator<\/a> with ANU colleagues <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/edwardaspinall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@EdwardAspinall<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/marcusmietzner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MarcusMietzner<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/oomberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Oomberg<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/indonewmandala\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@IndoNewMandala<\/a> account will also be RT&#8217;ing choice tweets from observers on the ground so keep an eye out.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Photos above via Prabowo Subianto on Facebook and @gm_gm on Twitter.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, nearly 190 million Indonesian voters have the chance to choose the president who will replace Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in October.\u00a0If you\u2019re a political tragic and want to tune in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/2014\/07\/08\/election-day\/\" class=\"more-link style1-button\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"id","enabled_languages":["au","id"],"languages":{"au":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"id":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}