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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Rebecca Ratcliffe South-East Asia correspondent and agencies

Indonesia election: Prabowo formally declared president-elect after court rejects legal challenges

Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto
Former general Prabowo Subianto has been formally declared Indonesia’s president-elect after a court rejected challenges brought by rival candidates. Photograph: Aditya Irawan/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

Indonesia’s electoral commission has formally declared Prabowo Subianto president-elect in a ceremony, after the country’s highest court rejected challenges to his win by rival candidates.

Prabowo, 72, a former general dogged by allegations of human rights abuses, won a landslide victory in February’s elections, but his two opponents claimed that the vote had been undermined by state interference and unfair rule changes.

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