(NSI News Source Info) JAKARTA - April 10, 2009: The quick count results issued by Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) on Friday showed that only nine parties passed the 2.5 percent parliamentary threshold to have legislators at the House of Representatives (DPR) and be able to compete in the 2014 polls. 
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (L) accompanied by first lady Kristiani Yudhoyono speaks to journalists after casting his ballot in a polling station near his residence in Cikeas, West Java April 9, 2009. Yudhoyono's Democrat Party led in a partial quick count of voting in Thursday's elections, but was not doing as well as some polls had forecast in a vote considered key for further reforms.
"Only those nine party made through the parliamentary threshold," said LSI executive director Saiful Mujani quoted by the Jakarta Post.
According to the results, the incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party wins the legislative elections with 20.48 percent votes, followed by Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) with 14.33 percent and third place Golkar Party with 13.95 percent votes.
The other six passed parties were the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) with 7.85 percent votes, the National Mandate Party (PAN) 5.72 percent, the United Development Party (PPP) 5.24 percent, the National Awakening Party (PKB) 5.12 percent, the Indonesian Great Movement Party (Gerindra) 4.59 percent and the National Conscience Party (Hanura) with 3.78 percent votes.
LSI executive director Saiful Mujani said the result used data from 2096 polling stations, out of a total of more than 530,000 polling stations, across the nation. They were still data waiting to be sent from several stations in Papua due to communication problem.
"But the random quality of these samples reach 99.57 percent, meaning it should reflect the real counting," he said.
The samples were chosen through combination method of stratified cluster random sampling. LSI rated its margin of error at 0.9 percent.
LSI's conclusion about nine parities passing threshold and Democratic Party winning were supported by another three institutions conducting quick count, but they said that PDI-P ranked third following Golkar.
The official result is scheduled to come out on May 9.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (L) accompanied by first lady Kristiani Yudhoyono speaks to journalists after casting his ballot in a polling station near his residence in Cikeas, West Java April 9, 2009. Yudhoyono's Democrat Party led in a partial quick count of voting in Thursday's elections, but was not doing as well as some polls had forecast in a vote considered key for further reforms.
"Only those nine party made through the parliamentary threshold," said LSI executive director Saiful Mujani quoted by the Jakarta Post.
According to the results, the incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party wins the legislative elections with 20.48 percent votes, followed by Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) with 14.33 percent and third place Golkar Party with 13.95 percent votes.
The other six passed parties were the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) with 7.85 percent votes, the National Mandate Party (PAN) 5.72 percent, the United Development Party (PPP) 5.24 percent, the National Awakening Party (PKB) 5.12 percent, the Indonesian Great Movement Party (Gerindra) 4.59 percent and the National Conscience Party (Hanura) with 3.78 percent votes.
LSI executive director Saiful Mujani said the result used data from 2096 polling stations, out of a total of more than 530,000 polling stations, across the nation. They were still data waiting to be sent from several stations in Papua due to communication problem.
"But the random quality of these samples reach 99.57 percent, meaning it should reflect the real counting," he said.
The samples were chosen through combination method of stratified cluster random sampling. LSI rated its margin of error at 0.9 percent.
LSI's conclusion about nine parities passing threshold and Democratic Party winning were supported by another three institutions conducting quick count, but they said that PDI-P ranked third following Golkar.
The official result is scheduled to come out on May 9. Additional Info: Related News
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono On Path To Re-Election
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - The party of Indonesia's president won a resounding victory in parliamentary polls, handing him a stronger mandate to push a reformist agenda in the world's third largest democracy.
Unofficial counts from five polling agencies showed Friday that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party would be the largest in the 560-seat lower house after collecting 20 percent of the popular vote. It ranked fifth in the last election in 2004.
That was a clear sign of widespread public approval for Yudhoyono's performance in his first years, but he will still have to form a coalition to garner enough seats to contest July 8 presidential polls and build a parliamentary majority that can push through his policies.
With preliminary, official results not expected for days, Yudhoyono made no comment about possible coalition partners, but analysts expect he will again join forces with the late dictator Suharto's party, Golkar, which took a beating at the ballot box, and any number of smaller Islamic parties.
Parties or coalitions need a fifth of the legislature _ or 25 percent of the popular vote _ to nominate a candidate for the presidential race.
The parliamentary election put Yudhoyono on track for «a landslide» in the presidential polls, said researcher Sunny Tanuwidjaja at the Jakarta Center for Strategic and International Studies. «This is an indication Yudhoyono is still very strong, very popular.
But while it gave him the political clout needed to seek a more ambitious agenda, it remains to be seen whether he would «dare to actually deliver the breakthroughs.... He has always been perceived as a slow and indecisive figure,» he said.
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, emerged from 32 years of dictatorship when Gen. Suharto was swept from power in 1998, leading to reforms that freed the media, vastly improved the country's human rights record, and for the first time allowed citizens to vote for president. But corruption is still endemic throughout government institutions and the courts, undermining its democratic transition. Critics say deeper reforms are still badly needed.
Voting went smoothly at more than half a million polling stations across 17,000 islands, but pre-election violence left five dead in the easternmost province of Papua in an apparent rebel attack. There were also complaints about ballot paper mix-ups and incomplete registration lists that meant some people couldn't vote at all.
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