Ballot counting ends in chaos

Ballot counting ends in chaos

PALANGKA RAYA, Central Kalimantan: Many mayoralty election officials here have absented themselves from the polling process, upon realizing their parties were performing poorly, Antara reported on Wednesday.

"As a result, no returns from the mayoralty have reached the local elections committee", Matlim Alang, deputy chief of the Central Kalimantan elections committee told Antara.

"They just absented themselves on realizing the parties they adore had lost."

It is understood the polls in Palangka Raya were won by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), while the election officials were mostly Golkar Party supporters.

PDI-P takes a commanding lead over other major parties in the area which has 86,359 eligible voters.