Three-hundred-and-two registered voters were expected to visit polling station No. 12 in Central Java's Purwosari Sub-district. But as of late afternoon on July 5, only 16 had appeared. Officials of the local elections organizing committee (KPPS), witnesses and observers there joked with one another and read the newspaper to kill time. "There was nothing else to do," said Yazid Muttaqien, the KPPS Chairman.

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