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The Latest Election Poll Released Tuesday Showed Indonesian Presidential Hopeful And Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo, Known Commonly As Jokowi, With A Slight Lead Over Former General Prabowo Subianto, One Day Before Some 190-Million Eligible Voters Head To The Polls In The World's Third-Largest Democracy To Cast Ballots In The Country's Third Direct Presidential Election. Nearly One-Third Of Voters Are Between The Ages Of 17 And 29 With 11% Expected To Vote For The First Time. This Will Be The First Time One Popularly-Elected Leader, Incumbent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Who Must Step Down After Two Terms As President,Will Hand Over Power To A Successor, Don Emmerson, Director Of Stanford University's Southeast Asia Forum, Told Daybreak Asia's Victor Beattie The Polls In The Country Are Not As Reliable As They Are In The United States With Widely Differing Numbers Of Undecided Voters, But Says There Is No Doubt The Momentum Is On The Side Of Former General Prabowo.

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