Samer Allawi-Jakarta
By announcing the results of the election officially five weeks after it was held on April 17, the Indonesian Election Commission has settled the situation in favor of President Goku Widodo in the face of his fierce rival, former General Barabo Subyanto, who leads a coalition of national and Islamic parties.
The Indonesian government has met with opposition to the results of the election, which led to the death and injury of dozens of demonstrators, and warned of a broad confrontation in the largest Muslim countries in terms of population, and the third largest democracies in the world after India and the United States.
Despite the strength of the causes of political and popular tension, the candidate of the opposition to the presidency to withdraw the fuse of the explosion, by announcing the withdrawal of pro-demonstrators from the streets, and blame for the shooting operations that targeted the demonstrators on a third party trying to fish in the troubled water.
General Baraboo rejected the outcome of the official election, and rejected the quick results announced by public opinion pollsters, who were accused by the opposition of being biased toward the president and his circle of businessmen who owned polling institutions in the country.
State organs
Politicians and observers of Indonesia know that it is difficult for Baraboo to suffer a third and final defeat, especially since an important part of the allegations of fraud has already been confirmed and confirmed by civil society organizations that have called for the election commissioners to be prosecuted for mismanagement.
This is in addition to the fact that the opposition parties have made progress in the parliamentary and local elections, which were held in conjunction with the presidents, which puts these parties in a stronger position than before and strengthens their conviction of the fairness of their case.
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Former Speaker of the Parliament Anis when he considers the need to take into account the preservation of state institutions to find any way out of the debate over the outcome of the elections, and similar to the current situation after the elections in 2014, and believes that recourse to the judiciary may be a way out that must be taken into account, despite The current questioning of the integrity of the judiciary.
When he says that the difference in votes between the presidential candidates is large, and therefore reduces the error rate by not more than 8%, he adds that the opposition does not have sufficient evidence to prove the fraud is considered to invalidate the electoral process, as it was financially unable to deploy observers at all polling stations The country.
The split of the 813,000 polling stations into smaller units contributed to the inability of the opposition to conduct a comprehensive election monitoring. Each center served between 300 and 400 voters. In addition, the composite election process included five types of elections in one day. Counting sounds is a long time and a great deal of trouble.
New mechanisms
But a broad team sees that recourse to old mechanisms - including the judiciary, which the opposition doubts about its impartiality - may deepen the crisis rather than dismantle it, and that the interest is not in the intervention of the judiciary or the army, but in the creation of means to accept the fait accompli created by the presidential elections. The opposition gains through parliament and local councils.
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In order to avoid a looming crisis, it will not be in the interest of the president or the opposition, and of course not in the interests of Indonesia; some believe that the search for a way out must be non-traditional, since opponents question the integrity of the state apparatus, , To the army and the police.
President Widodo feels that he is in an enviable position in Parliament, where the weight of the opposition and its influence will be decisive in passing any government decision or project, so the opposition may impose its conditions on the president to give him legitimacy in the next five years.
In return, the president must make substantial concessions to the opposition in exchange for recognition of his legitimacy, and pass his programs in the central parliament and in the provinces where his coalition won.
If the presidential battle is overcome, the opposition parties have much to do with a deal that can be reached with the president. The least of these gains are preserving the entities of the opposition parties, especially the Islamic ones, and involving them in power, and the preservation of the country's security and integrity. The great power struggle in the region, which is clearly reflected in front of the eyes of Indonesians between China and the United States.
On the other hand, Indonesians who do not see an Indonesian or a principled democratic interest in fighting an internal battle under any name. Although supporters of democracy do not see the recent elections as a model, they acknowledge that Indonesian democracy is still young and the country is struggling to improve Economic status.
Indonesians can reluctantly coexist with half a democracy through sovereign state institutions such as parliament by keeping the half-filled cup, instead of wasting it, at a sensitive stage where the great powers of the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea are scrambling for nations trying to set foot in stormy waves.