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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Indonesian president on track for re-election By ANTHONY DEUTSCH,Associated Press Writer AP - Thursday, July 9 JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia's president appeared all but certain to win another five-year term in office, with early ballot counts indicating a sweeping election victory Wednesday that will give him a powerful mandate to press ahead with democratic reforms. ADVERTISEMENT An unofficial quick count of ballots sampled from 2,000 polling stations showed President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono winning 60 percent of the vote, putting him well beyond a 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a runoff in September in the predominantly Islamic nation of 235 million. But Yudhoyono opponents _ without providing proof _ made accusations of electoral fraud, questioned the validity of the quick count polling and threatened to contest the final results, raising fears of political deadlock. The preliminary result was based on ballots from all 33 provinces and conducted by the Indonesian Survey Circle, which has accurately forecast previous elections. The survey count showed that Megawati Sukarnoputri, a former president whose father was the first postcolonial leader of Indonesia, was in second place at 27 percent, followed by Vice President Jusuf Kalla in third at 13 percent. Five other pollsters conducted exit polls and quick counts that also gave Yudhoyono around 60 percent of the vote. "The (official) vote count is clearly not finished, although quick counts show the success of our struggle," Yudhoyono said in televised comments from his private residence. "If there is a protest, follow the mechanism provided under the law," he said, referring to the process of filing a complaint with the National Election Commission. Kalla, who heads the party of former dictator Suharto, Golkar, said he was "shocked" by the quick counts indicating his defeat, but that his polling monitors are confident that "the result is not like that." Prabowo Subianto, Sukarnoputri's vice presidential running mate, told reporters: "We are inventorizing the cases as preparation for legal action," but gave no concrete examples. An official result is to be released by the National Election Commission by July 27. The commission did not respond to repeated phone calls seeking comment. There were no reports of major incidents at roughly 450,000 polling stations across Indonesia's thousands of islands, including in the capital, Jakarta, where early estimates showed Yudhoyono had taken 70 percent of the vote. "So far, I am satisfied with his work," said Ahmad Yani, a 43-year-old hotel employee who voted for Yudhoyono after his station was opened with a Muslim prayer. "The fight against corruption is improving, I see new roads, new buildings and other infrastructure." Fifty-year-old mechanic Toto Hardoto, also in Jakarta, said Yudhoyono deserved to win "because of his success in fighting corruption and maintaining religious harmony" after years of sectarian violence between Muslims and Christians that had been destabilizing Indonesia. Yudhoyono has an image as a tough and dedicated corruption fighter with high moral integrity. Under his watch, the Corruption Eradication Commission has put a dozen lawmakers behind bars, earning it many powerful enemies in the graft-ridden police, parliament and judiciary. "The question is whether he will be able to fight that resistance by using the support from the public and the legitimacy he had from this landslide victory," said Sunny Tanuwidjaja, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "I think after this election he will show more commitment." Yudhoyono won praise on the international stage for a swift crackdown on Islamic militants after a series of suicide bombings killed 240 people from 2002 to 2005. His management of the economy, which is expected to expand by 4 percent in 2009 amid a global recession, is another reason voters want to see him back in office. Still, Indonesia faces other huge obstacles in attracting foreign investment to improve its crumbling infrastructure, creating an independent judiciary and reducing poverty of up to 100 million people. It has also struggled to stop illegal logging and mining that are depleting its natural resources and causing global warming. Sunny believes that a reinvigorated Yudhoyono is up to the task. "We'll see a more vibrant, more assertive president," he said. "He wants to leave a big legacy for himself in the Indonesian history." ___ Associated Press reporters Zakki Hakim, Ali Kotarumalos and Niniek Karmini in Jakarta contributed to this report. 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