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(5 Jul 2004)

Jakarta
1. Election commission press conference
2. Projection of percentages for candidates
3. Media
4. Official addressing media
5. Poster of candidate Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and running mate Yusuf Kalla
6. Press conference of National Democratic Institute (NDI)
7. Pan across slide showing Yudhoyono with 33.9%
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Paul Rowland, National Democratic Institute:
"There is no outright winner that the ticket of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Yusuf Kalla has received the most votes of the five tickets as predicted in many pre-election surveys with a predicted 33.9 percent."
9. Pan across chart tracking candidates' progress
10. Chart
11. Radio reporter reporting results at press conference
12. Media
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Paul Rowland, National Democratic Institute:
"In these projections and in the number of invalid ballots that will be subject to rechecking it is still unclear as to which ticket will come in second and advance to the second round."
14. Indonesian NDI worker pointing at chart
15. Chart with all candidates' results
16. Yudhoyono walking through crowd pointing
17. Yudhoyono being congratulated after voting
18. Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri walking from voting booth to ballot box
19. Candidate General Wiranto walks up with his wife and young daughter and puts thumbs-up to cameras

Yogyakarta, Central Java
20. National Assembly speaker and candidate Amien Rais puts ballot in box

Jakarta
21. Votes being counted
22. Ballot is read
23. Officials recording votes
24. Vote that has been disallowed marked on chart

STORYLINE:

Former army general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono won Indonesia's first direct presidential election on Monday, but a runoff election in September looked certain after he failed to get an outright victory, according to an early US-funded exit poll.

It was not immediately clear who Yudhoyono would face in a second round, with President Megawati Sukarnoputri and another ex-army general, Wiranto, locked in a tight race for second place.

The poll by the Washington-based National Democratic Institute showed that Yudhoyono failed to win the 50 percent of votes needed for an outright victory.

The private institute's completed sample of votes cast at 2,500 polling stations showed Yudhoyono ahead with 33.9 percent.

President Megawati Sukarnoputri was second with 24.9 percent, and another former army general, Wiranto, had 23.8 percent.

The poll had a margin of error of 1 percent, and similar samples by the same organisation have accurately predicted results in dozens of elections around the world, including Indonesia's parliamentary elections in April.

The vote took place six years after longtime dictator Suharto was deposed, and was a key step in the transition to democracy in the world's largest Muslim country.

Previously, voters elected politicians who then chose the president in a system used by Suharto to ensure his grip on power.

Election officials ordered a recount of a large number of ballots that were declared invalid because voters had accidentally spoiled them by punching the paper when it was folded in two.

Hamid Awaluddin, an election commission member, said the problem could affect (m) "millions" of the total ballot count of 140 (m) million.

However he said the process would not significantly delay the count, which could take up to 10 days.


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