JAKARTA (AFP): Former general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was on course to win a landslide victory in Indonesia's presidential election Monday, according to a nationwide sample of votes by a respected independent survey group.
Susilo was predicted to win 62 percent of the votes against 38 percent for incumbent Megawati Soekarnoputri, said the Freedom Institute, an Indonesian partner of the Washington-based National Democratic Institute (NDI).
Although the survey was only a partial result of a full study to be released later Monday, Freedom Institute director Rizal Mallarangeng said the final outcome was unlikely to differ significantly.
"But after we have a more representative results from central Java, we may see the result slightly change to around 61-60 percent and Megawati to 39-40 percent," Mallarangeng said on Metro TV.
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