A few hours after I voted we already could see the election result. Based on the quick count result our current president with his new partner won the election with over 50% votes. That means we don’t need to do the second round election. Off course it was still temporary numbers as the official result from the general election committee was still two weeks away, but so far quick counts never failed.

It didn’t surprise me at all as it was predicted by so many surveys before the election. The big question would other candidates accept the results with big heart? Would they congratulate the winner like they said while they were campaigning? If so, that would be a great surprise ^_^

Indonesia Presidential Election 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
8 AM – 1 PM

Within hours we’re going to have an important event that will determine this country’s future (at least for the next 5 years), and here I’m at 2 AM watching last tribute for MJ live from LA. Will I have the strength to go to the ballot box later?

Despite so many broken promises from our previous and current leaders, I still believe it’s important for me to cast my vote. I owe that to my kid’s future (sounds silly huh? hmm… maybe). Even if my candidate doesn’t win, at least I can say I’ve done my part. Somehow I think it’s easier that way, because I can’t think of what to say if my candidate does win but then turns out lying. Oh well.

“Let’s choose the best for this country. Five minutes for voting, five years we’ll move on.” – Cokelat

At the very last moment, finally we know who’s going to run for the presidential election next month. I’m not going to mention their names because that’s not important, besides I’m not too fancy about politics and not going to talk about it in my blog. Just wanna share how I feel about this upcoming presidential election.

As a citizen who’s going to use my right to vote next month, I can’t help feeling insulted with what our politicians doing right now. They waited until the last moment to finally reach the agreement with their coalition partners about their candidates. And ironically all this time they said they stood up for the people? Really? As if we didn’t know the real reasons behind the long (almost) endless discussions/negotiations between them. It’s about power sharing! I bet if there was no dateline they would still continue bargaining each other.

Anyway, now we already got the candidates name, God helps us to choose the right one, amen.