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Prabowo Subianto, a former general and the current defense minister, has won Indonesia’s presidential election by a wide margin, preliminary official figures showed Thursday. Prabowo received 56% of the vote, based on 40% of the ballots counted after Wednesday’s presidential and legislative elections, according to the website of the General Elections Commission. His closest rival, Anies Baswedan, a former governor of Jakarta and ex-education minister, trailed behind with 25%. Ganjar Pranowo, the former governor of Central Java province, came in third with 19%. Prabowo, 72, who is the former so…

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