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| Factbox - Indonesia's election year | | Sunday, March 16, 2014 2:29 AM | |
| | Indonesia holds parliamentary and presidential elections this year in what could bring major change to the way the world's third largest democracy is run. Current President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is in the last year of his second term and is barred by the constitution from running again. DATES March 16 - Campaigning for the parliamentary election starts April 9 - Parliamentary election April 26 - Vote counting starts, until May 6 May 7 - Official result due to be declared July 9 - Presidential election July 26 - Winner due to be announced, if no runoff September 9 - Presidential election runoff if no clear winner in the first round September 26 - Winner due to be announced October 20 - New president inaugurated REQUIREMENTS A party, or coalition of parties, must win at least 25 percent of the national vote or 20 percent of parliamentary seats to nominate a presidential candidate. |
| Indonesia starts election campaign, voters set to choose radical change | | Sunday, March 16, 2014 2:27 AM | |
| | By Jonathan Thatcher JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's raucous election season kicks off on Sunday with the promise of a fresh style of leadership in the world's third largest democracy, whose economic promise has been sapped by rampant graft, confusing policy and weak rule. An uncertain election outlook abruptly changed on Friday when the main PDI-P opposition party named the hugely popular governor of Jakarta as its candidate for July's presidential election. That lifted even further its chances of dominating the parliamentary election on April 9. Opinion polls suggest the presidency is governor Joko Widodo's to lose, with old-style contenders ex-general Prabowo Subianto and tycoon Aburizal Bakrie trailing far behind. |
| Two arrested for carrying huge amount of cash in Kolkata | | | Kolkata, March 15 (IANS) Two people were nabbed here Saturday for carrying large amount of cash without the required documents, said an Election Commission official. "None of them could provide any legal documents on why they were carrying the cash. |
| Court cuts jail term of Pakistan doctor who helped find bin Laden | | | By Jibran Ahmed PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A court in Pakistan on Saturday reduced by 10 years the jail term handed down to a Pakistani doctor who helped the United States track down al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, in a blow to his supporters who have been fighting for his release. Shakil Afridi, hailed as a hero by U.S. officials, was arrested after U.S. soldiers killed bin Laden in May 2011 in a raid in a northern Pakistani town that outraged Pakistan and plunged relations between the strategic partners to a new low. Pakistan arrested Afridi and sentenced him to 33 years in jail for being a member of a militant group, a charge he denies. On Saturday, a court in the city of Peshawar reduced his sentence to 23 years following repeated calls by the United States and his legal team for his release. |
| Dec 16 convicts claim innocence in robbery case | | | Mukesh and Pawan Gupta are facing trial for allegedly beating up and robbing carpenter Ram Adhar, before raping and assaulting a 23-year-old girl in a bus here. Another accused Pawan Gupta also claimed he was not in the bus and had gone to a music function organised by a church in the DDA district park in south Delhi along with co-accused Vinay. On March 7, the two other convicts in the gang rape case - Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur - had also claimed innocence. While Vinay Sharma said he had gone to the music event, Akshay Thakur said he was not in the bus since he had left for his village in Bihar a day prior to the incident. |
| SC stays death sentence of two Dec 16 gang rape convicts | | | New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court Saturday stayed the execution of the death sentence of Mukesh and Pawan Gupta, two of the four convicts in the Dec 16, 2012 gang rape, whose death sentences was upheld by the Delhi High Court March 13. A special bench of Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai and Justice Shiva Kirti Singh stayed the execution of the death sentence till March 31. |
| Scolded by mother, boy commits suicide | | | Jaipur, March 15 (IANS) An 11-year-old boy Saturday committed suicide by hanging himself using his mother's sari in Rajasthan's Bikaner town after he was scolded for skipping school, police said. |
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