BBC Online :
The losing candidate of the recent Indonesian presidential election, Prabowo Subianto, has launched his court challenge against the result, claiming electoral fraud.
Both Subianto and his rival Joko Widodo declared victory after last month’s election.
The official vote count found Widodo – the front-runner – to be the winner by a six percentage point margin.
Widodo, meanwhile, announced on Monday his five-member transition team.
The team and several advisers will draw up a policy roadmap as the former Jakarta governor prepares to take power in October.
The first hearing for Subianto’s challenge took place at Indonesia’s constitutional court on Wednesday amid tight security as hundreds of supporters turned up.
Subianto’s lawyers argued that as many as 24.1 million votes from more than 52,000 polling stations were “troubled”, reported The Jakarta Globe, and that the violations were “structured, systematic and massive”.
They alleged irregularities including voters using improper registration cards, inconsistent recounts and vote tallies which did not match. Subianto, who spoke at the hearing, alleged that there were “hundreds” of polling stations that received zero votes.
