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Gerindra claims Prabowo-Hatta victory in Jakarta

Jakarta Post - July 13, 2014

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Jakarta – The Gerindra Party Jakarta-chapter central executive board chairman, Muhamad Taufik, said candidate pair Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa won the presidential election in Jakarta with 52 percent of the vote according to the results of a "real count" conducted by his monitoring team.

"The results were based on the manual recapitulation of data presented in the vote recapitulation [C1] forms. We don't use quick counts," he said as quoted by tempo.co in Jakarta on Sunday.

Election committee members at each polling station scan the C1 forms and upload them to the General Elections Commission (KPU) website.

Taufik, who is also a member of Prabowo-Hatta campaign team, claimed the candidate pair had gained major victories in Central, East and South Jakarta, while in West and North Jakarta, the pair won by a slight margin.

Based on its findings, Taufik said his team had filed reports with the Election Supervisory Committee (Bawaslu) regarding false vote recapitulation reports, especially in West and North Jakarta.

"There is a sub-district where 1,000 votes disappeared. Overall, 1,245 polling stations in Jakarta experienced problems with the vote counting, based on our monitoring activities," said Taufik.

Separately, a quick count conducted by Jakarta-based Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting (SMRC) showed that in Jakarta, Joko "Jokowi" Widod-Jusuf Kalla led Prabowo-Hatta, 55.86 percent to 45.14 percent.

At the national level, SMRC and other pollsters, such as the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Cyrus Network, confirmed Jokowi-Kalla as the seventh Indonesian president and vice president with around 52 percent of the vote over Prabowo-Hatta with only around 48 percent.

Both candidate pairs have claimed victory in the presidential president, anchoring their claims to quick count data by different pollsters. The Prabowo camp cited data from polling agencies, including the National Survey Institute (LSN), the Indonesia Votes Network (JSI) and the Strategic Development and Policy Research Center (Puskaptis), which have been accused of using dubious methodologies. (gda/ebf)

Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/07/13/gerindra-claims-prabowo-hatta-victory-jakarta.html.