Election '97

Election '97

Photo A/B/C: Officials

Antara
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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

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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

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Suyoto
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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

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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).