Thursday April 9, 5:00 PM
– – – – JAKARTA – Indonesians went to the polls across the vast archipelago of more than 17,000 islands in parliamentary elections considered key to setting the pace of further reform in Southeast Asia’s largest economy. The elections, a massive exercise in democracy with more than 170 million eligible voters, were marred by overnight violence in which at least six people died in the eastern province of Papua.
