Results trickling in...

Indonesia held its third democratic election to elect legislative members to the House of Representatives on April 9th. I saw a sample ballot yesterday. It was roughly 2 ft x 3 ft and had boxes for all the 38 political parties. And, I believe voters complete four different ballots of the same size. In total, 11,000 people ran for seats in parliament across the archipelago. Districts are still counting votes, but by and large Indonesians have a sense of which parties will be best represented. I see percentages float by on the TV, but have only learned a little bit about a fraction of the parties. Todd and I were on Gili Meno on election day, and Todd captured this image--the hand of the man who we hired to take us back to Lombok by boat. His thumb is marked with indelible ink to indicate that he had already voted.