Indonesia’s Prabowo stretches lead in new survey on presidential contenders

Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has opened up a wide lead over his closest rival in a new opinion poll, despite controversy over his decision to pick the outgoing leader Joko Widodo’s son as his running mate.
An Oct. 27- Nov 1 survey of 1,220 people released on Sunday by Indikator Politik Indonesia showed 39.7% of respondents would vote for third-time presidential contender Prabowo while 30% would back the ruling party’s Ganjar Pranowo.
Indikator’s most recent polls have had the two neck-and-neck, with defence minister Prabowo at 36.1% and former Central Java governor Ganjar on 33.7% in its survey released on Oct. 26. Former Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan remained a distant third.
About 205 million of Indonesia’s more than 270 million population are eligible to vote in elections on Feb. 14, which will decide who will succeed Jokowi, as the president is known, after a decade in power.