Votes of some 20,000 Indonesians in Malaysia counted in Kuala Lumpur

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Some 20,000 Indonesian workers in Malaysia have voted in Kuala Lumpur to choose candidates for Indonesia's presidential and general elections.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 The vote-counting process for the Indonesian presidential and general elections went smoothly

00:07 in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday.

00:09 The process was held at the World Trade Center, the same venue where some 20,000 Indonesian

00:14 workers in Malaysia cast their votes last Sunday.

00:18 The workers are part of the 1.2 million Indonesians working in the country, and they form the

00:23 largest number of Indonesian overseas voters.

00:26 "The ballot paper is still being counted now, so we don't know the exact details.

00:31 Once it's done, there will be a process of recapitulation.

00:35 We can't calculate in detail whether the number is higher or lower.

00:40 But from the percentage, it's about 10% of the total number of voters."

00:49 The Indonesian General Election Supervisory Agency said its monitoring committee had issued

00:54 six recommendations to the overseas election committee, following a viral video showing

00:59 alleged marked ballot papers ahead of last Sunday's polling day.

01:04 "At that time, there was a negligence from one of the non-existing members of the PPLN

01:14 who had been replaced through our handling process."

01:20 The overseas election committee said they will look into the recommendations before

01:23 making any decision.

01:25 The official results for the elections will come in about a month.

01:29 Unofficial figures showed that the PDIP party garnered nearly 20% of votes, based on 5.2%

01:36 of ballots counted at a sampling of polling stations in Indonesia.

01:41 Prabowo Subianto of the Jorindra party was reportedly leading in the race for presidency,

01:46 ahead of Anis Baswedan and Ganjar Pranowo.

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