![Indonesia's presidential candidates Widodo (l) and Subianto are courting overseas voters [File: Willy Kurniawan/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/9e4900e57d714ff287a8dccbe876d3b9_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
There are almost nine million Indonesians living abroad, a key constituency for the contenders Widodo and Subianto.
![Neither candidate in Indonesia's presidential race has suggested rescinding bans on political parties [AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2014622105934448734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Indonesia may be Southeast Asia’s most successful democracy, but communist and regional parties are still banned.
![Indonesia's main Muslim parties won more than 30 percent of the vote in last month's parliamentary election [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/201442913324907621_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Indonesia’s Muslim parties fared better than expected in April’s parliamentary vote but are unlikely to win power.
![Presidential candidate Aburizal Bakrie has invoked the memory of Suharto on the campaign trial [AFP/Getty]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/201448115551352580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Indonesia polls are a contest between two diametrically opposed views of the country’s troubled past.