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Indonesian president set for re-election

AP, Jakarta
Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was poised to win his second term in office on the back of recent economic and political stability, according to early returns yesterday in the country's presidential election.
After the close of polls, an unofficial quick count at 2,000 polling stations with 90 percent ballots tallied gave Yudhoyono 59 percent of the vote, which would be enough to avoid a runoff in September. He needs 50 percent of cast ballots to win in one round.
Megawati Sukarnoputri, a former president whose father was the first postcolonial leader of Indonesia, was second at 28 percent, with Vice President Jusuf Kalla at 13 percent.
The preliminary result was based on ballots from all 33 provinces and was conducted by the Indonesian Survey Circle, which has accurately forecast previous elections. It was broadcast on TVOne television.
"The vote count is clearly not finished, although quick counts show the success of our struggle," Yudhoyono said in televised comments from his private residence.
But his opponents rejected the preliminary result and said they would wait for their own counts before responding.
"We don't believe the results conducted by the survey institutions, which we know are
affiliated with SBY"s campaign team," said Yuddy Chrisnandi, a spokesman for Kalla, using the president's initials.
An official result is to be released by the National Election Commission by July 27.
Earlier, lines of voters formed at roughly 450,000 polling booths across Indonesia's three time zones, from Aceh in the west to remote Papua province in the far east. Voting passed off calmly, with no reports of major incidents when polls closed at 0600GMT (2:00 a.m. EDT).
In Papua, 40-year-old elementary school teacher Fransiscus Bokeyau said he had voted for Yudhoyono. "People feel free of fear and peaceful under his leadership. Slowly the standard of living and the economy in Papua are improving," he said.
It was Indonesia's second direct presidential election. Before dictator Suharto was ousted in 1998, Indonesia was under brutal authoritarian rule for three decades, and until recently was wracked by secessionist battles and suicide bombings by al-Qaida-funded Islamic militants. It suffered towering unemployment after the Asian financial crisis in 1997-98.
Most public opinion polls in Indonesia are funded by political parties, but even the surveys paid for by Yudhoyono's opponents before the election put the 59-year-old former general 10 percent ahead of the closest rival.