From the exit polls and first counts it appears most likely that Indonesia's President Joko Widodo we will continue for another term.
Unless there is a major change in the coming hours Indonesia can look forward to another four years of prosperous growth, improvement in corruption and become The Roaring Lion that I've always said it would become.
After living and prospering here for 22 years I am convinced that business in Indonesia will improve rapidly in the next few years, especially tourism and real estate which I am involved in.
My wife and I just purchased our first real estate that I purchased in Bali for over 10 years.
I was one of the first foreigners in Bali to invest heavily in real estate in 2002 and have seen dramatic growth up until 2014 when I became bearish.
In 2017 I came out of semi-retirement and coined the saying "This is the second best time to buy Bali real estate this Century".
All my recent research have proven that my predictions are coming true once again.
Now that it appears we have a stable government for the next four years's it's time for everyone to begin to invest again in what may provide profits of 20% - 150% in the next 3 to 10 years
If you'd like to learn everything you need to know about investing in Bali real estate you're welcome to come to my free seminars Next week in Bali.
Information on the seminars is listed below this following article.
Free Bali Seminar Schedule:
Bali Emerald Villas, Jl. Karangsari, # 5, Sanur, Bali, Indonesia.
(1) Wednesday, April 24 th. 18:30 - 19:45
(2) Saturday, April 27 th. 14:00 - 15:15
Early results show President Joko Widodo takes a lead in Indonesia's elections
By Helen Regan, Julia Hollingsworth and Sarah Faidell, CNN
Updated 0906 GMT (1706 HKT) April 17, 2019
A supporter of incumbent Indonesian president Joko Widodo holds up a T-shirt with Widodo's portrait during an election rally on the final day of campaigning in Jakarta on April 13, 2019.
(CNN)Partial early results from the Indonesian election show incumbent President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo taking a lead over longtime rival and former military strongman Prabowo Subianto.
An initial count of Wednesday's ballots put Jokowi on around 55% of the vote, with Prabowo winning around 44%.
Most pre-election opinion polls had given Jokowi a double-digit lead, though he had copped criticism from analysts and former supporters who say he has failed to deliver on issues such as human rights -- and compromised his values of pluralism to score political points.
Final official results will be announced by May 22.
Joko Widodo: Has the shine worn off Indonesia's Obama?
Some 192.8 million people were eligible to vote across the archipelago's 17,000 islands in what is the world's biggest direct presidential election.
It's been billed as one of the most complicated single-day ballots ever under taken. For the first time, Indonesia held its presidential and legislative elections on the same day, with more than 245,000 candidates running for over 20,000 seats. More than 800,000 polling stations and six million election workers helped to pull it off.
Only the Indian elections are bigger (with 900 million people eligible to vote) and they are held over a period of almost six weeks. Indonesia's elections take place over just six hours.
A logistical feat spanning mountains and jungles
An Indonesian election worker on horseback transports ballot boxes and election material to a remote village in Jember, East Java on April 15, 2019.
Indonesians were actually asked to casting five ballots -- for the president and vice-president, for members of the 575-seat House of Representatives, for the Regional Representative Council (or Senate), provincial legislators, and district and city councils.
Polling began at 7 a.m. local time and voters had until 1 p.m. to cast their ballots before polls closed and the counting started.
Ensuring this mega-poll in the world's third largest democracy would go off without a hitch was a logistical feat, with election workers traveling by boat to remote islands, scaling mountains to reach hill-top villages and trekking through jungles -- sometimes on horses -- to bring ballot boxes within range of every voter.
"The logistics of this election are fiendishly complicated," said Ben Bland, director of the Southeast Asia Project at the Lowy Institute.
"Indonesians are spread over hundreds if not thousands of islands, many of these places are very remote and mountain villages, you have to access some places by small boats, on foot in some cases. And remember that many different areas have different ballots because they're voting for different local candidates," said Bland.
"So for the election commission to get all these thousands of different kinds of ballot paper to 800,000 polling stations across Indonesia is a real geographical and logistical feat."
Indonesian election officials transport ballot boxes to a remote village by boat along a river in Manggamat, Southern Aceh province on April 16, 2019.
But there has also been reported allegations of voting irregularities, with Prabowo and his team claiming there were voter lists that included names of the dead and those not eligible to vote and vowing to take action if their concerns were ignored. The Election Commission is investigating the claims.
Indonesia's election watchdog has called for a revote for more than 300,000 Indonesians living in neighboring Malaysia because officials discovered invalid ballots, which were punched by non-voters, and other uncast ballots.
"There is convincing proof that the Overseas Election Committee in Kuala Lumpur did not carry out its task of conducting the 2019 election objectively, transparently and professionally," the election committee said in a statement.
It comes after video purportedly showed pre-marked ballot papers for Jokowi in Malaysia.
While Indonesia is a relatively new democracy following the fall of the Suharto regime in 1998, Bland said the nation has a "pretty good track record" of keeping the election free and fair.
"Its important to understand just how hard it is for countries transitioning from authoritarianism to democracy to do so successfully, and how hard it is in a big developing country to hold successful elections," he said, citing Nigeria and Afghanistan which have delayed their elections because of logistical problems.
"Meanwhile in Thailand there's an impasse at the moment because of uncertainties of the counting process and the role of the military government in that so I think Indonesia deserves credit for the way its built up a pretty resilient election system," he said.
The challengers
Polls suggest that Jokowi, 57, is likely to win a second term. A former furniture salesman, Jokowi became mayor of Surakarta in 2005 and then Jakarta governor in 2012.
In 2014, he campaigned on a promise of creating jobs, bolstering human rights and cracking down on corruption. The public was sold and swept in the self-styled man-of-the-people over his military strongman opponent, Prabowo, now 67.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo at a rally at Jakarta's main stadium on April 13, 2019 in Jakarta.
Once again, Jokowi was competing against Prabowo, a retired army general and son-in-law of former president and authoritarian dictator Suharto. His running mate is Sandiaga Uno, a businessman and vice governor of Jakarta who was named by Forbes in 2013 as Indonesia's 47th richest man, with an estimated net worth of $460 million.
During campaigning, Prabowo seized on his rival's economic failings, slamming Jokowi for allowing food prices to rise and calling for better quality jobs.
Jokowi's choice of Ma'ruf Amin, a hardline Muslim cleric for his running mate, may have bolstered his religious credentials by appealing to Islamic hardliners that have traditionally supported Prabowo. But it could have also turn off some those who voted for him in 2014 for his commitment to religious freedom.
Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto during a campaign rally at the Gelora Bung Karno stadium in Jakarta on April 7, 2019.
Youth vote
Some 80 million 18-35 year-olds -- about 40% of the electorate -- were eligible to cast a ballot this year and both candidates have made efforts to appeal to them.
Jokowi beamed a hologram of himself around the nation, featured his pet goat on social media, and made references to the television show "Game of Thrones."
Prabowo, meanwhile, focused on issues such as unemployment which are likely to appeal to younger voters who are struggling with an unemployment rate of about 15.8%, according to World Bank figures.
"Millennials are very important to the two candidates," said Hasanuddin Ali, chief executive of research company Alvara Research Center. "Millennial voters are also a key success factor in the Indonesian election."
Indonesia election: violence-wracked province calls for independence
But it could prove a hard sell. Analysts say there is widespread disengagement from young people towards politics and they are put off by high levels of corruption and distrust in the system.
"Some don't feel like they're being equally represented," said Ella Prihatini, an academic with the Center for Muslim States and Societies at the University of Western Australia.
Others are concerned that minority rights continue to be eroded -- over the past few years police raids and vigilante attacks on members of the LGBT community have increased and last year the country made moves to criminalize homosexual sex.
"I think it's unfair to expect LGBT Indonesians to vote when we're not even considered a part of this nation," said Amahl Sharif Azwar, a 32-year-old gay Indonesian freelance writer who lives in Thailand.
By Helen Regan, Julia Hollingsworth and Sarah Faidell, CNN
Updated 0906 GMT (1706 HKT) April 17, 2019
A supporter of incumbent Indonesian president Joko Widodo holds up a T-shirt with Widodo's portrait during an election rally on the final day of campaigning in Jakarta on April 13, 2019.
(CNN)Partial early results from the Indonesian election show incumbent President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo taking a lead over longtime rival and former military strongman Prabowo Subianto.
An initial count of Wednesday's ballots put Jokowi on around 55% of the vote, with Prabowo winning around 44%.
Most pre-election opinion polls had given Jokowi a double-digit lead, though he had copped criticism from analysts and former supporters who say he has failed to deliver on issues such as human rights -- and compromised his values of pluralism to score political points.
Final official results will be announced by May 22.
Joko Widodo: Has the shine worn off Indonesia's Obama?
Some 192.8 million people were eligible to vote across the archipelago's 17,000 islands in what is the world's biggest direct presidential election.
It's been billed as one of the most complicated single-day ballots ever under taken. For the first time, Indonesia held its presidential and legislative elections on the same day, with more than 245,000 candidates running for over 20,000 seats. More than 800,000 polling stations and six million election workers helped to pull it off.
Only the Indian elections are bigger (with 900 million people eligible to vote) and they are held over a period of almost six weeks. Indonesia's elections take place over just six hours.
A logistical feat spanning mountains and jungles
An Indonesian election worker on horseback transports ballot boxes and election material to a remote village in Jember, East Java on April 15, 2019.
Indonesians were actually asked to casting five ballots -- for the president and vice-president, for members of the 575-seat House of Representatives, for the Regional Representative Council (or Senate), provincial legislators, and district and city councils.
Polling began at 7 a.m. local time and voters had until 1 p.m. to cast their ballots before polls closed and the counting started.
Ensuring this mega-poll in the world's third largest democracy would go off without a hitch was a logistical feat, with election workers traveling by boat to remote islands, scaling mountains to reach hill-top villages and trekking through jungles -- sometimes on horses -- to bring ballot boxes within range of every voter.
"The logistics of this election are fiendishly complicated," said Ben Bland, director of the Southeast Asia Project at the Lowy Institute.
"Indonesians are spread over hundreds if not thousands of islands, many of these places are very remote and mountain villages, you have to access some places by small boats, on foot in some cases. And remember that many different areas have different ballots because they're voting for different local candidates," said Bland.
"So for the election commission to get all these thousands of different kinds of ballot paper to 800,000 polling stations across Indonesia is a real geographical and logistical feat."
Indonesian election officials transport ballot boxes to a remote village by boat along a river in Manggamat, Southern Aceh province on April 16, 2019.
But there has also been reported allegations of voting irregularities, with Prabowo and his team claiming there were voter lists that included names of the dead and those not eligible to vote and vowing to take action if their concerns were ignored. The Election Commission is investigating the claims.
Indonesia's election watchdog has called for a revote for more than 300,000 Indonesians living in neighboring Malaysia because officials discovered invalid ballots, which were punched by non-voters, and other uncast ballots.
"There is convincing proof that the Overseas Election Committee in Kuala Lumpur did not carry out its task of conducting the 2019 election objectively, transparently and professionally," the election committee said in a statement.
It comes after video purportedly showed pre-marked ballot papers for Jokowi in Malaysia.
While Indonesia is a relatively new democracy following the fall of the Suharto regime in 1998, Bland said the nation has a "pretty good track record" of keeping the election free and fair.
"Its important to understand just how hard it is for countries transitioning from authoritarianism to democracy to do so successfully, and how hard it is in a big developing country to hold successful elections," he said, citing Nigeria and Afghanistan which have delayed their elections because of logistical problems.
"Meanwhile in Thailand there's an impasse at the moment because of uncertainties of the counting process and the role of the military government in that so I think Indonesia deserves credit for the way its built up a pretty resilient election system," he said.
The challengers
Polls suggest that Jokowi, 57, is likely to win a second term. A former furniture salesman, Jokowi became mayor of Surakarta in 2005 and then Jakarta governor in 2012.
In 2014, he campaigned on a promise of creating jobs, bolstering human rights and cracking down on corruption. The public was sold and swept in the self-styled man-of-the-people over his military strongman opponent, Prabowo, now 67.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo at a rally at Jakarta's main stadium on April 13, 2019 in Jakarta.
Once again, Jokowi was competing against Prabowo, a retired army general and son-in-law of former president and authoritarian dictator Suharto. His running mate is Sandiaga Uno, a businessman and vice governor of Jakarta who was named by Forbes in 2013 as Indonesia's 47th richest man, with an estimated net worth of $460 million.
During campaigning, Prabowo seized on his rival's economic failings, slamming Jokowi for allowing food prices to rise and calling for better quality jobs.
Jokowi's choice of Ma'ruf Amin, a hardline Muslim cleric for his running mate, may have bolstered his religious credentials by appealing to Islamic hardliners that have traditionally supported Prabowo. But it could have also turn off some those who voted for him in 2014 for his commitment to religious freedom.
Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto during a campaign rally at the Gelora Bung Karno stadium in Jakarta on April 7, 2019.
Youth vote
Some 80 million 18-35 year-olds -- about 40% of the electorate -- were eligible to cast a ballot this year and both candidates have made efforts to appeal to them.
Jokowi beamed a hologram of himself around the nation, featured his pet goat on social media, and made references to the television show "Game of Thrones."
Prabowo, meanwhile, focused on issues such as unemployment which are likely to appeal to younger voters who are struggling with an unemployment rate of about 15.8%, according to World Bank figures.
"Millennials are very important to the two candidates," said Hasanuddin Ali, chief executive of research company Alvara Research Center. "Millennial voters are also a key success factor in the Indonesian election."
Indonesia election: violence-wracked province calls for independence
But it could prove a hard sell. Analysts say there is widespread disengagement from young people towards politics and they are put off by high levels of corruption and distrust in the system.
"Some don't feel like they're being equally represented," said Ella Prihatini, an academic with the Center for Muslim States and Societies at the University of Western Australia.
Others are concerned that minority rights continue to be eroded -- over the past few years police raids and vigilante attacks on members of the LGBT community have increased and last year the country made moves to criminalize homosexual sex.
"I think it's unfair to expect LGBT Indonesians to vote when we're not even considered a part of this nation," said Amahl Sharif Azwar, a 32-year-old gay Indonesian freelance writer who lives in Thailand.
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According to PT. B.A.L.I., one of Bali's leading real estate experts for the past 15 years, who have thousands of satisfied clients, this is the “Second best time to purchase Bali Real Estate this century”.
They believe that recent changes in real estate laws for foreigners allowing them to obtain control of Bali Real Estate for more than a normal lifetime is creating a huge new demand for Indonesian and Bali Real Estate. Coupled with the fact that Bali Real Estate has just undergone the first correction in modern history with prices down as much as 50 % this has set the stage for *increases of 20 % to 100 % the next three to five years.
Free Bali & Jakarta Real Estate Seminars - Earn 10% to 20% per yr. - Foreign Ownership Laws Clarified – Properties at 50% off – Limited opportunity to Earn 15% Per Yr. fully secured.
Are you tired of traditional investments such as banks and bonds that only offer 1- 6% per year, which may not keep pace with the real inflation?
Do you want to become rich the way over 60 % of self-made multi-millionaires did?
According to PT. B.A.L.I., one of Bali's leading real estate experts for the past 15 years, who have thousands of satisfied clients, this is the “Second best time to purchase Bali Real Estate this century”.
They believe that recent changes in real estate laws for foreigners allowing them to obtain control of Bali Real Estate for more than a normal lifetime is creating a huge new demand for Indonesian and Bali Real Estate. Coupled with the fact that Bali Real Estate has just undergone the first correction in modern history with prices down as much as 50 % this has set the stage for *increases of 20 % to 100 % the next three to five years.
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Whether you are a buyer, seller, broker, agent, investor, lessor or renter you can benefit from attending one of our Free Real Estate Seminars in Bali in April.
At these seminars PT. B.A.L.I’s Canadian President, a 23 yr. Bali resident who is married to a fully Licenced Indonesian Notaris will review the most recent real estate laws for Indonesians and Foreigners in detail.
Then they will also discuss the Past, Present, and Future of Indonesian Bali Real Estate.
Free Bali Seminar Schedule:
Bali Emerald Villas, Jl. Karangsari, # 5, Sanur, Bali, Indonesia.
(1) Wednesday, April 24 th. 18:30 - 19:45
(2) Saturday, April 27 th. 14:00 - 15:15
Free Seminar Topics:
At these seminars you will learn about:
>The Past, Present and Future of Bali and Indonesian real estate.
>Why a recent official clarification of foreign ownership laws allows foreigners to totally control Indonesian properties for up to 80 years.
> How to avoid legal problems and make sure a property is safe.
> How to avoid complicated real estate laws affecting Indonesians married to foreigners.
> Why this is the second-best time to buy this century.
> Where are the best locations to buy for maximum profits?
> What type of properties will offer the best investment potential of *10% to 20 % per year?
> Discover how you can sell your property fast for the highest prices and lowest commissions.
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Free Bali Seminar Schedule:
Bali Emerald Villas, Jl. Karangsari, # 5, Sanur, Bali, Indonesia.
(1) Wednesday, April 24 th. 18:30 - 19:45
(2) Saturday, April 27 th. 14:00 - 15:15
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