Jakarta (Agencies) – The legal team of losing presidential candidate Anies Baswedan on Wednesday requested the Constitutional Court order an election re-run and disqualify president-elect Prabowo Subianto, alleging state interference to sway the outcome in his favour.
It also called for the judges to order that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo stay neutral, according to the plaintiff's requests in a presentation slide obtained by Reuters.
The election, Anies said, showed that the world's third-largest democracy was at risk of sliding back into its authoritarian past.
"If we don't perform corrections right now, then it'll become a precedent in the future at votes on every level," he told the Constitutional Court. "This practice will be perceived as normal, a habit."
The administration of outgoing President Jokowi has rejected allegations it interfered in the election.
Prabowo received nearly 60 percent of the votes, helped by the tacit backing of hugely popular former rival Jokowi, as the president is known, promising to continue his agenda of infrastructure modernisation, jobs creation and development of downstream industries for the country's vast mineral resources.
Anies received 25 percent of votes and third-placed Ganjar Pranowo took 16 percent. Ganjar was due to present his case in court later on Wednesday.