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Urgent Prayer Is Needed NOW for Presidential Elections taking Place in Indonesia

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Emergency Prayer Alert

INDONESIA

Presidential elections are taking place now, July 8, 2009 Indonesian Time, in the most populous nation of Muslims in the world- Indonesia.

With the Indonesian presidential elections looming, some political analysts are wondering what role Muslim organizations will play. In parliamentary elections earlier this year the Islamic parties lost a number of seats. Still, in the country with the world’s largest Muslim population, all the major presidential candidates are courting the Muslim vote, VOA News reported.

Indonesians will vote in the second direct presidential election on July 8, 2009 Indonesian time to choose the candidates for next president and vice president for the service period of 2009 – 2014, according to the Associated Press.

The independent polling stations will team up with TV stations in broadcasting the live quick count program, which will provide an estimated result of the presidential election in the afternoon of July 8, 2009, Indonesian time. The vote casting process will officially end at 1 p.m. local time Indonesian time.

The General Election Commission (KPU) is scheduled to announce the official result of the presidential election within 30 days after the vote casting day.

The incumbent president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of the Democratic Party will be challenged by Jusuf Kalla of the Golkar Party and Megawati Soekarnoputri of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) in the upcoming election.

This year’s election will also see a brand-new procedure for the citizens to cast their votes. They can simply show their ID cards and other supporting documents to exercise their voting rights. If no candidate wins more than 50 percent of the votes from the July 8 presidential election, the KPU will set the second-round election scheduled on September 8.The AP also reported.

PRAY:

• Pray for peaceful elections
• Pray Islam will not be a force in the presidential elections today.
• Pray for a President who will allow true freedom of religion in Indonesia.
• Pray there will be no corruption in the elections, or in the results that will be announced.
• Pray for God’s choice to be elected in this Presidential election.
• Pray that Indonesians will be safe casting their vote.
• Pray for God’s Kingdom to come in this land on earth as it in Heaven.

Sources include: www.voanews.com, The Associated Press