Polls closed across Indonesia on Wednesday after citizens cast ballots to elect their next president and vice president. Voters fill in their ballots in Jakarta. More than 170 million people are registered to vote. Preliminary election results were expected within a few hours, with official results expected no sooner than next week. Indonesia has 175 million registered voters spread over 17,000 islands. It was the country's second direct election since the regime of Suharto fell in 1998, in the wake of the Asian financial crisis. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Yusuf Kalla and Megawati Sukarnoputri are vying for the post of the President, according to a report of CNN.
