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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: Indonesia votes in elections to set pace of reform Reuters - Thursday, April 9 By Olivia Rondonuwu ADVERTISEMENT JAKARTA - Indonesians went to the polls on Thursday across the vast archipelago of more than 17,000 islands in parliamentary elections seen as key to setting the pace of further reforms in Southeast Asia's top 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. Economic issues are topping the agenda in the polls, which have faced logistical woes ranging from problems verifying electoral lists to educating the public about the process when they vote on ballot papers the size of a broadsheet newspaper. "I hope parliamentarians can help make everything cheaper," said Sukinah, 79, after voting in Yogyakarta on Java island. "This election is difficult, it's different from the last one," she added, after having her finger dabbed with ink as a precaution to stop people repeat voting. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democrat Party is tipped to win the most seats in the parliamentary poll, lifting its share of the vote from 7.5 percent in 2004 to as much as 29 percent, according to one recent poll. That would pave the way for Yudhoyono, a reform-driven ex-general, to run for re-election in the July presidential poll, most likely with a stronger mandate to continue his pro-investment policies of reducing graft and shaking up institutions such as the judiciary, civil service and police. PAPUA TENSIONS Papua police said at least six people died and a string of buildings, including a university in provincial capital Jayapura, were set ablaze after attacks on several police posts by gunmen and by a crowd armed with bows and arrows and petrol bombs. "The gunmen and other groups tried to make the elections fail," Papua Police Chief Bagus Ekodanto told Reuters. He later said the situation had calmed and people had started voting. Tensions in Papua, where a separatist movement has simmered for decades, have been running high in recent weeks and some Papuans have called for a boycott of the election. The first indications of the winner may come within a couple of hours of polling stations closing at midday in a quick count to be taken from a sample of stations. The parliamentary elections are seen as referendum on Yudhoyono's performance, particularly when it comes to clamping down on corruption and reviving economic growth. Yudhoyono, who has an approval rating of 45-52 percent according to recent opinion polls, was Indonesia's first directly elected president and the first to serve a full five-year term since the autocratic Suharto was forced to step down in 1998. His administration has delivered stronger economic growth and brought relative peace and stability to the world's most populous Muslim nation, which also has sizeable religious minorities. But tackling endemic graft in one of the world's most corrupt countries has proved far tougher. Several high-profile officials, including central bankers, have been investigated and imprisoned but some Indonesians feel powerful vested interests have been spared punishment. "This will be the third truly free and fair election Indonesia has held since it got rid of dictator Suharto in 1998 and ushered in a new era of democracy," the Jakarta Post said in an editorial. Polling opened first in Papua, but was slow after the overnight violence. In a polling station in Nabire, west of Jayapura, an official also said voting might be delayed since only 55 ballot papers had arrived for 576 eligible voters. 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