"This is not a war. This is a contest held every five years to give the right to eligible voters to choose candidates as their future leaders. So, there should be fairness, peace, mutual respect, regulations," Wiranto noted after casting his vote in Cipayung, East Jakarta, on Wednesday.
Because election is a democratic contest, so the participating candidates and parties must be ready to accept the results, and even if they lose the election they should not fight with each other, according to the retired general.
He expressed his hope that Indonesia will have a reliable leader that can face global competition.
Indonesians cast their votes in parliamentary elections held simultaneously across the nation, which is the biggest democracy after India and the United States, on Wednesday.
More than 185.8 million voters, spread across thousands of islands that stretch to some 4.8 thousand km from east to west, are registered to vote in the largest and most complicated single-day poll in the world.
There are more than 545 thousand polling booths, which open at 7 a.m. and close at 1 p.m. across the worlds largest archipelago country.
This year, 15 political parties, of which 12 are national and three are local, are participating in the elections. (*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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