Election '97

Election '97

Photo A/B/C: Officials

Antara JP/arh JP/arh

OFFICIALLY SPEAKING: Vice President and Mrs. Try Sutrisno (above) show their ballot papers before inserting them in a box at a polling station on Jl. Krawang in Jakarta. State Minister of Research and Technology B.J. Habibie casts his vote at his office in the Agency for Research and Application of Technology in Jakarta (right). Moch. Yogie S.M. and Singgih, chairmen of respectively the General Election Institute and the General Election Supervising Committee, announce the first results of the election at the institute's headquarters in Jakarta (extreme right).

Photo D/E/F: Nurses

JP/leo JP/afs JP/leo

WHILE YOU'RE WORKING: Nurses at Pertamina hospital in Jakarta take time off from work to cast their votes at a nearby polling station (above). An official shows a ballot paper during vote counting in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, scene of a fatal riot last Friday (right). Office workers and store keepers in Blok M shopping complex in Jakarta form a line outside a polling booth (extreme right).

Photo G/H/I: Booth

JP/bay Suyoto JP/leo

UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES: A polling station was set up at Bungur Asih bus terminal in Surabaya, East Java, for the convenience of travelers, bus drives and conductors (extreme left). An elderly woman is assisted by an official to insert her ballot papers at a polling booth in Jurangmangu, Tangerang (left). A ballot box is brought to a bed-ridden patient at Pertamina hospital in Jakarta (above).

Photo J/K: Guard

JP/afs Suyoto

IT'S THE RESULT THAT COUNTS: Two light armored cars guard the main thoroughfare in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, to secure the election (left). An official shows a ballot paper during the vote counting process at a polling station in Kedaung, Ciputat outside Jakarta (above).