REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BOGOR -- The Indonesian Government has asked the two camps of presidential and vice presidential candidates to maintain the country's peace and stability after both claimed a victory in Wednesday's presidential election.
"The two camps must be able to maintain a peaceful, harmonious, and orderly situation across the country," Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Djoko Suyanto said here Wednesday.
Speaking in a press conference broadcast live by TV One, Djoko Suyanto said the police would take stern actions against those who threatened the country's peaceful condition following the early claim victory by the two camps.
"We do not want to put the security and safety of the nation at risk," he said adding that the supporters of the Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa pair and Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla duo should exercise restraint.
"Freedom should be channeled for goodness. So please avoid counterproductive activities," Djoko Suyanto said.
The results of different pollsters' quick counts have shown that a possible victory belongs to both Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa and Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla pairs.
The two camps even declared that they won the election by referring to the outcomes of different credible pollsters' quick counts.
Antara learned from Metro TV and TV One's live broadcast that the Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla camp made the claim first followed by the Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa duo.
According to the result of Kompas' quick count, the Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla pair gained 52.43 percent of votes while the Prabowo-Hatta duo got 47.57 percent of votes.
However, three credible pollsters' quick counts, whose results are broadcast live on TV One, have shown that the Prabowo-Hatta pair won more than 50 percent of votes.
The three pollsters are the National Survey Institute (LSN), the Policy and Development Strategy Research Center (Puskaptis), and the Voice of Indonesia Network (JSI).
The LSN's quick count reveals that the Prabowo-Hatta pair gains 50.54 percent of votes while its rival (49.46 percent) while the Puskaptis' survey shows that the Prabowo-Hatta pair got 52.05 percent and its rival (47.95 percent).
The JSI's quick count put the Prabowo-Hatta pair's percentage of votes higher than that of the Joko Widodo-Hatta Rajasa with percentage of 50.29 percent and 49.71 percent respectively.
In his remarks that TV One broadcast live, Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto urged the entire nation to remain patient to wait for the final result of vote counts that the General Election Commission will have announced on July 22.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has earlier called on the presidential candidates to honor the election result.
"For those who win the election, it is their responsibility to lead this country. For those who receive the least votes, they must accept it genuinely," Yudhoyono stated after casting his vote at a polling booth near his residence.
According to Indonesia's General Election Commission (KPU), a total of 190,307,134 eligible voters have been registered for the presidential election on Wednesday, July 9, 2014 (including 2,038,711 overseas voters who have previously cast their votes) with 486,866 polling stations across the archipelago.
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