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Millions of Indonesian voters were set to cast their ballots on Wednesday in a crucial election that will decide the South-East Asian nation’s next president, vice president and legislators. Around 205 million people in the world’s fourth most populous country are being called on to cast their ballots at over 820,000 polling stations across the country. In Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua, where violence linked to a separatist insurgency has been on the rise in recent years, voting began at 7 am local time (2200 GMT) amid tight security. Heavy rain meanwhile dampened voter turnout in so…