The former Indonesian general who is believed to have lost that country’s Presidential Election says he will refuse to accept the official result, until allegations of cheating are investigated.  Prabowo Subianto is reversing his previous commitment to abide by the election commission’s final count due on Tuesday.

“So far, the counting process is going according to schedule,” said Indonesia’s General Elections Commission (KPU) commissioner Sigit Pamungkas.  “We have not thought about postponing or making a new rule that alters our schedule.”

Subianto over the weekend accused the KPU of failing to properly investigate alleged cheating at the polls.

“If they don’t, then that is a crime.  This very much calls into question the legitimacy of the whole process,” said Subianto.  But independent election watchers have praised the KPU for its handling of polling and the transparency during the nearly two-week counting process.  Any problems at polling stations appear to have been very small. 

Several independent polling organizations believe that Jakarta Governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo won the election, carried to victory on his anti-corruption message.  It’s only Indonesia’s third election since the ouster of Subianto’s former boss Suharto in 1998, a terrible chapter in which hundreds of people were killed.

62-year old Prabowo Subinato a former military special forces general dogged by allegations of past human rights abuses; specifically, the abduction of 23 pro-democracy activists, 13 of whom have never been seen again.