REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - The installation of Joko Widodo or Jokowi and Basuki Tjahaja Purnama as Jakarta governor and vice governor respectively would be held this Monday (Oct 15), the city administration official said. The Jakarta legislative council vice chairman Inggar Joshua said on Thursday that the council had distributed as many as 2,000 invitation letters relating to the ceremony.

According to him, the nine television stations would directly broadcast the induction ceremony. The Jakarta`s General Election Commission announced recently that Joko Widodo popularly called as Jokowi and his running mate Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) had been elected the city`s new Governor and Vice Governor for 2012-2016.

Data obtained from the election commission showed, 2,472,130 of people or 53.82 percent of voters casted their ballots for Jokowi-Ahok pair in the second round of gubernatorial election on September 20. The couple surpassed the number of votes received by Fauzi Bowo and his running mate Nachrowi Ramli by 2,120,815 or some 46.18 percent of the votes.