the official results are yet to be announced there's still some time off but it appears that joe cool redondo has secured another term as indonesian president. that's right this was very much a referendum on president performance over the past five years and it does look like voters are ready to give him another five years to continue carrying on his policies now in the face of it these elections were also in many ways about the economy. promise of increasing economic growth by seven percent were not met we have seen a reduction in the poverty rate we have seen him invest in infrastructure and those were things that appeared to have worked in his favor over his soul competitor. so now many of the people i spoke to today said even though perhaps they weren't necessarily the biggest fans if they did want to give him another opportunity to keep on encouraging even issued ads and also saw him as a better option than his competitor. and his job. is it. was definitely a big issue in this election. absolutely religion based identity politics has been one of the issues that has overshadowed this enti