A brief look at the range of candidates ahead of Indonesia's general election on Wednesday
A worker prepares ballot boxes in a warehouse in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 15, 2019, before their distribution to polling stations.
About 193 million Indonesians are eligible to vote in presidential and legislative elections on Wednesday that will decide who leads a nation that's the world's fourth most populous nation, its third biggest democracy and is forecast to be among the world's biggest economies by 2030.
The enthusiasm that Widodo generated in the 2014 campaign was far less evident this year apart from a final major rally at a Jakarta stadium which attracted well over 100,000 fervent supporters – about the same as Subianto a week earlier at the same venue. His weekend dash to Saudi Arabia appeared to be one last push to shore up the pious Muslim vote. Widodo and his office tweeted photos of him meeting with King Salman, a popular figure in Indonesia, and, dressed in white robes, performing the minor pilgrimage in Mecca.
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