Election stalemate spells uncertainty for Indonesia

摘要

Indonesia faces A fraught few weeks. A day after the country's presidential election wound up last week, the camps of early favourite Joko Widodo and his opponent, former general Prabowo Subianto, had each staged victory rallies. The outcome of one of the most significant elections for South-East Asia in the past 20-odd years remains bitterly disputed, and is likely to be determined by a court ruling. After years of watching Indonesia's courts while covering the country's offshore debt markets, I have to put my money on a Subianto victory.