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The counting of ballots carried out at the Indonesian Embassy in Bangkok, went smoothly and smoothly. Everything is like being hypnotized to follow the counting process from start to finish.

Indonesian Ambassador to Bangkok Thailand Ahmad Rusdi confessed to RRI, was very satisfied with the work of the Bangkok PPLN team that had worked optimally since the Election (10/04/19) to this day Wednesday (04/17/19) in the ballot counting process .

"Ithis has been taking ballot counting, either by mail or we go to prison. This shows the professionalism of PPLN, everything went well. Security is under control, and the community feels safe and comfortable within the Indonesian Embassy. In essence PPLN has worked well with KPPSLN and the community has supported it to the maximum, "said Ahmad Rusdi.

The ballot counting process is very conducive, and is open to the public, so that in RRI's monitoring, more and more people in Indonesia come to attend the ballot calculations late in the afternoon. Two (2) polling stations provided by each polling station 01 for the Mobile Ballot Box (KSK) method, and the TPS method for the DPR RI. TPS, 02 for the postal method and presidential voting, as well as the legislature at the polling station.

Prabowo-Sandy's winning team in Egypt seemed so relieved after learning the results of the Presidential Election (Pilpres) ballot counting from 15 polling stations (TPS) held since noon local time, Wednesday (04/17/2019).

Cairo-Egypt's Chairman Prabowo-Sandy, Boris Yudiarso told RRI said that in the process of counting the ballots, his party sent 30 Witnesses consisting of 15 witnesses to the Social Justice Party (PKS) and the rest from Prabowo-Sandy's National Winning Body in Cairo ,Egypt.

"Alhamdulillah, we feel very plaintive even though initially we were a little worried because our undocumented migrant workers (TKI) could choose or not, but finally there was a KPU decision that instructed them to vote," he said, met on Wednesday. (4/17/2019).

Boris added that the president's vote count in Egypt had known the results were just beginning and he hoped the good results would also occur domestically.

"Whoever the elected President will be in the first assignment means that there is still preamble, our next assignment is actually still very long, namely guarding his promises (Prabowo) so that they are correct in five years," he said.

The results of the vote while the 15 TPS Presidential Election held at the Indonesian Embassy in Cairo, namely Jokowi-Ma'aruf obtained 1,608 votes and Prabowo-Sandy received 4,737 votes with 29 invalid votes.

Then for the Mobile Voting Box (KSK) method, Jokowi gained 67 votes and Prabowo as many as 72 votes with no valid votes alias none. Finally, the Pos method, Jokowi received 19 votes and Prabowo had only 2 votes with 4 invalid ballots. (rri.co.id)

The Overseas Election Committee (PPLN) of Hong Kong until 22:30 local time this evening had completed almost 50 percent of the ballots that had been punched.

"Now at 10:30 a.m. the counting process is still going on safely until now. Approximately 14,000 votes have been counted, about 50 percent of the total voters who voted. From the results of the calculation, there were around 86 percent for candidates and candidates 02 around 14 percent, "said Chris who was met in front of the Consulate Building in Hong Kong on Wednesday (04/17/2019).

Of these, Chris did not elaborate on the number of damaged or invalid ballots. He only said that so far the vote counting process was still carried out in a number of rooms in the Consulate General in Hong Kong.

With the use of rooms in the Hong Kong Consulate Building for the 2019 election vote counting process, the service activities at the Consulate General in Hong Kong for today are closed.

The vote counting process takes place in a closed manner. Only involving PPLN and Hong Kong Panwaslu, KPPSLN, as well as witnesses from political parties and timses from both parties. (rri.co.id)

 Speaker of Indonesia's House of Representatives, Bambang Soesatyo, along with members of his family, exercised their voting rights at polling booth 15 in Kauman Sub-district, Purbalingga District, Central Java Province, on Wednesday.

Soesatyo, in a white shirt, was spotted arriving at the polling booth at 9 a.m. Western Indonesian Time.

After casting his vote, the speaker greeted and engaged in talks with those residing in proximity to the polling booth.

Soesatyo obliged the request of enthusiastic locals to click pictures with him.

The House speaker was upbeat that the national elections would be held in an orderly and peaceful manner across Indonesia.

"Today, we have reached a point where we need to make a choice, and we are optimistic that all would run safely, orderly, and peacefully," he noted.

Soesatyo further emphasized that elections are a democratic fiesta in which all citizens must partake sans any threat or low feelings.

"I see the lit-up faces of people at this polling booth, as this election is a celebration. Hence, we must be joyful," he remarked.

Furthermore, Soesatyo visited several polling booths in the districts of Purbalingga, Banjarnegara, and Kebumen to ascertain the smooth implementation of the polling process.

"People need not fear visiting polling booths since the TNI (Indonesian army) and Police are ensuring security and order," he affirmed. (ant)