With Ink-Stained Fingers, Indonesia Votes in One of World's Largest Elections

Indonesians headed to the polls on Wednesday to cast their votes from among 200,000 candidates in 12 different parties, all of whom were vying for more than 19,000 positions in the country's elections.

This is Indonesia's fourth election since the fall of autocrat Suharto in 1998, and the third elections for the country's president.

Of those 200,000 candidates, 6,607 competed for 560 seats in the House of Representatives, 945 seats in the national regional representatives council (the country's Senate equivalent) and the rest for local councils, culminating in a massive exercise of democracy. Read more...